It’s medicine. Lacrosse celebrates and entertains the Creator.” Thompson is a member of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, a group of six indigenous nations — Seneca, Mohawk, Cayuga, Oneida, Tuscarora and ...

Mohawk and Tuscarora tribes. In response to the statement from the United States and Canada, the two Haudenosaunee National lacrosse teams issued a message of thanks for the support.

The Haudenosaunee, comprised of the Mohawk, Oneida, Tuscarora, Seneca, Onondaga and Cayuga peoples, "invented the sport of lacrosse nearly a thousand years ago," the joint statement said.