Patty Loew, producer of the new lacrosse documentary “Sacred Stick,” discussed the origins, traditions and significance of the “fastest growing sport in America” — lacrosse — when she visited Beloit College on Nov. 7, 2010. Her comments begin at the 3:05 minute mark.
Loew, a producer with Wisconsin Public Television, is also a professor of life science communications at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of Indian Nations of Wisconsin: Histories of Endurance and Renewal. She produced the new documentary film titled “Sacred Stick.”
Bill Green, director of the Logan Museum of Anthropology at Beloit College, introduced Loew. The same morning, a piece appeared on the college’s internal news site, The Terrarium, where Green himself gave a brief background on the sport and showed off two of three lacrosse sticks in the museum’s collection.
“Apart from its recreational function, lacrosse traditionally played a more serious role in Indian culture,” he wrote. “Its origins are rooted in legend, and the game continues to be used for curative purposes and surrounded with ceremony.”
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