This tribe has recently been producing some the top division one players in the modern game. One author writes that even in modern times, “…the wooden stick remains central to the Iroquois religion and Culture: Males are given a miniature version at birth, sleep with their playing stick nearby or even in bed, and take one into the grave.” (Price) This Illustrates how the game of lacrosse is still so important to the culture of these Iroquois people. The Iroquois are also the only Indian tribe that competes as a nation for the lacrosse world championship that takes place once every four years. Although the Iroquois have never won the title they are beginning to be considered contenders against the powerhouse national teams of the United States and Canada, who are the only teams to have ever won this title. They are also beginning to inspire a whole new type of under privileged lower economic status youth, typical of almost all Indian tribe reservations today, to play this amazing sport of lacrosse, and helping to effectively change the negative culture that lacrosse had become to be known by in modern