Delby Powless

Delby Powless is a Mohawk lacrosse player from the Six Nations of the Grand River First Nation near Brantford, Ontario, where he was born on July 3, 1980. He is the grandnephew of Ross Powless and a cousin of Gaylord Powless, both of whom are in the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame. As a professional he played for the Buffalo Bandits of the National Lacrosse League, helping the club to a league championship in 2008, and for the Hamilton Nationals of Major League Lacrosse, with which he won a championship in 2009. In 2003 he received the Tom Longboat Award as the top male Aboriginal athlete. The English Wikipedia article also records a junior career with the Six Nations Arrows, college play at Herkimer and Rutgers, and appearances for the Iroquois Nationals at world championships.