Sports & Games

Harry Paul lived in La Ronge in the 1930s and describes what life was like in those years.

Global Gender and Sexuality Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University at Buffalo, State University of New York, 2018.

Publication of the Aboriginal Healing Foundation aimed at residential school survivors contains letters, photographs, poems, and various articles.

Examines the ways that various minorities use hockey to create a sense of nationalism and how it differs for majority of Canadians. Francophone and Indigenous communities are discussed.

Book review of: Hidden in Plain Sight edited by David R. Newhouse, Cora J. Voyageur, and Dan Beavon.

Looks at the Department of Indian Affairs involvement in Aboriginal sport in missionary and reserve schools.

Physical Education and Sport Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Alberta, 1990.

Researches and defines masculinity in sport with the creation of subculture called les Canadiens.

Overview of recreation and policy development for Aboriginal sport focusing on Alberta and the Northwest Territories since the 1960s.

Kinesiology Thesis (M.A.)--The University of Western Ontario, 2017.

Kinesiology and Recreation Management Thesis (M.A.)--The University of Manitoba, 2010.

Brief interview with the first Canadian Aboriginal hockey player in the National Hockey League and one other legendary hockey player. Article located by scrolling to page 28.

Discusses racism during hockey tournament.

Comments on community contributions by Gino Odjick, a hockey player from Maniwaki, Quebec, Billy Two Rivers, a former wrestler from Kahnawake, and Darren Zack, a fastball pitcher from Garden River First Nation.

Consists of an interview that tells of the acquisition of the Holy Hand Game.

Describes the singing game, Honour Water, the process of its design and creation, the meaning and gifting of the songs used in the game, and how it teaches about water and our relationship to it.

Original entitled "Indian Relics Horns and Antlers." Possibly from a private collection in or near Medicine Hat, Alberta. Includes numerous bison and deer horns and antlers hanging on a wall. On the back is written "You will notice 3 stone balls at the bottom of this snap. The Indians used them for bowling on the green." Two rifles also appear visible.

Consists of an interview giving an account of the last long distance horse races at Stand Off, Alberta. Includes a story of gambling between a Blood Indian and a Snake Indian; a story of the Holy Lodge; a story of the girl who married a star and the origin of the Holy Turnip; a story of a camp where the children were abandoned; a story of a man who eloped.

The authors consider the ways that contemporary Indigenous games are related to those that have be traditionally played on Turtle Island (like Sla’hal or the Bone Game), and how those games convey values, culture, and survivance.

Looks at possible stereotypical representations of Native Americans in two video games. American Studies Honors--Tufts University, 2011-2012.

Focuses on the planning associated with 2010 Games held in Vancouver, British Columbia. Development Studies Honours Thesis (B.A)--University of Calgary, 2009.

Former Olympian, motivational speaker and brand ambassador for Manitobah Mukluks discusses her personal journey to success. Followed by performance by two Inuit throat singers. Duration: 1:15:07.

Coverage of the winter festival in Ile a la Crosse. Winners from various competitions on page two. Page one: Three pictures, one of flour packing, one of dog sled preparation, and one of snow mobile racing. Page two: Three pictures, all of hockey being played. Page three: Awards ceremony.

Comments on the "chain of symbolic associations between the Indigenous, in particular the Choctaw, and Lennon and The Beatles that extends across much of the novel".

Looks at the historical development of a Canadian masculine identity through the countries love of hockey.

Kinesiology and Recreation Management Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Manitoba, 2015.

2018 marked the first year that a Team Indigenous participated in the Newfoundland and Labrador Winter Games. This article looks at how participating for Team Indigenous impacted the participants and if it motivated them to seek a higher level in sports and education.

Higher Education Thesis (Ph.D.)--Arizona State University, 2014.

Discusses how the Act structured Aboriginal participation and legitimized Euro-Canadian ways of playing.

File contains 4 negatives from a celebration held to commemorate the 25th Anniversary of the Prince Albert Indian-Metis Friendship Centre. The celebration was held on July 7, 1988. The four scanned images include pictures of chuckwagon races.

Resource contains instructions for specific games suitable in Kindergarten to Grade Ten classrooms.

Comments on games of chance and games of skill or dexterity. Entire issue on one pdf. Article located by scrolling to page 25.

Originally published in the Bulletin of the Essex Institute prior to 1886.

To accompany film based on the book of the same name by Richard Wagamese.

Locations of other books by this early Ojibwa writer can be found through the Portal using an "author" search.

12 images (4 scanned here) of staff and members enjoying recreational activities at the Saskatoon Indian and Metis Friendship Centre on June 2, 1976.

"National publication for the Indians of Canada". Focus on Indigenous issues, events at residential schools and legal decisions. Articles reflect the attitudes and policies of the time.

"National publication for the Indians of Canada". Focus on Indigenous issues, events at residential schools and legal decisions. Articles reflect the attitudes and policies of the time.

"National publication for the Indians of Canada". Focus on Indigenous issues, events at residential schools and legal decisions. Articles reflect the attitudes and policies of the time.

"National publication for the Indians of Canada". Focus on Indigenous issues, events at residential schools and legal decisions. Articles reflect the attitudes and policies of the time.

"National publication for the Indians of Canada". Focus on Indigenous issues, events at residential schools and legal decisions. Articles reflect the attitudes and policies of the time.

Quarterly magazine published by the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation. Numerous articles on various topics including decorated stone masks in Mexico, games played by Arikara children, the Prairie Cree tipee.

Quarterly magazine published by the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation. Numerous articles on various topics including notes on the nation of the Mistassini and a report on a visit to a Chert quarry.

Images depicts 4 horses and riders rounding the curve on a racetrack. Numerous people in attendance in the stands, watching.

Four Aboriginal men on horseback preparing to race at the Cannington Manor track. The photographer has written on the back: "The Indian Pony race was a great event at the Cannington Races - a definite sporting event in the western calendar. The big English houses put up the guests. During the year racing ponies up the village street was a mail day pastime."