United States
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Width: 33 mm
Height: 22 mm
Perforation: Imperforate on right side 11.75 x 11.75
Location: Lacrosse & Ringette
Stamp ID = 3875
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Fort Michilimacinac Reenactment celebration in Mackinaw City, Michigan, USA.
Fromhttp://www.lphistorical.org/pontiac_fact_sheet2.pdf
Here a band of the northern Chippewa at Fort Michilimackinac uses a game of baggatiway (lacrosse) with a band of visiting Sauks as a ruse to surprise the fort, where 20 of the garrison of 35 soldiers are killed.
From Lacrosse: A History of the Game By Donald M. Fisher
In 1963 two white clubs played three contests as part of a lightly attended four-day celebration of "Lacrosse - Fort Michilimacinac Massacre" bicentennial.
From Linn's "Stamp Issuing Entities Of The World" page.
United States of America (1847-)
Stamp-issuing status: active; Population: 248,709,873 (1990). Republic occupying the central portion of North America, along with Alaska, Hawaii and a large number of island possessions in the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean.