Onondaga Nation

People of the Hills

More honors for Onondaga Nation stickmaker: Alf Jacques

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alfie_jacques_oct_2014Syracuse.com: Every day, for Alf Jacques, now brings with it some pain: He especially feels it in his hands, in his elbow, in his back. He still goes each morning to the little shop near his mother’s house at the Onondaga Nation, where he uses an axe and a mallet to break apart hickory trees, a raw beginning that leads to polished lacrosse sticks that gleam like bone.