How Native Americans Used A Ball Game To Infiltrate A Fort

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How Native Americans Used A Ball Game To Infiltrate A Fort

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Before lacrosse became a modern sport with helmets, pads, and tiny goals, it was a massive Native American war game played across miles of open land.

But in 1763, outside Fort Michilimackinac, the Ojibwe and Sauk used it for something even more dramatic: a deception so simple the British never saw it coming.

This is the bizarre but true story of how a ball game, an open fort gate, and one very badly timed lack of suspicion helped turn a sporting spectacle into one of the strangest infiltrations in North American military history.

Hosted by history teacher turned podcaster, Nick Charlie Key (host of The Fantastic History of Food).

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