Black Eagle (lacrosse)

Black Eagle was a First Nations lacrosse player from Canada, born in July 1865, whose date of death is not recorded in the sources consulted. He took part in the 1904 Summer Olympics, held at St. Louis, where lacrosse was contested as a team event. At those Games he was a member of the Mohawk Indians Lacrosse Team, which represented Canada and won the bronze medal in the lacrosse tournament. His entry rests on that single documented appearance, and the records of his life beyond the 1904 Games are thin: his birthplace is given only as Ontario and no death date has been traced. He is nevertheless one of the early Indigenous Canadian athletes to appear on an Olympic medal table, at a time when lacrosse was an Olympic sport and Haudenosaunee players carried its traditions into international competition.