Before the earth was even here, when it was just stars and the sky, a game was played: lacrosse.
"Our cosmology says that what's on the other side of the stars is a reflection of what's here," Chief Oren Lyons tells me. "In that story, on the other side, they're playing the game."
I didn't know this, and Lyons does not pull any punches.
"You know very, very little of your own history."
The tone of the Lacrosse Hall-of-Famer, Syracuse All-American, and global human rights leader who has worked with the likes of Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu is unfailingly strong but devoid of ego.