Half Moon (lacrosse)

Half Moon, whose Anglicised name was recorded as Amos Francis Obediah, was a First Nations lacrosse player who won a bronze medal for Canada at the 1904 Summer Olympics with the Mohawk Indian team. Olympedia gives his birth as 30 April 1872 at the Six Nations Reserve near Brantford, Ontario, and his death as 29 August 1948 in Hamilton, Ontario. The Mohawk Indian team is sometimes described as an Iroquois team, since the Mohawks were one of the six nations of the Haudenosaunee confederacy, and it seems to have come from the area around Brantford. Olympedia can find nothing further about his life and suggests that his name may simply reflect being born under a half moon.