Call Me Indian: From the Trauma of Residential School to Becoming the Nhl's First Treaty Indigenous Player

Call Me Indian: From the Trauma of Residential School to Becoming the Nhl's First Treaty Indigenous PlayerTrailblazer. Residential school Survivor. First Treaty Indigenous player in the NHL. All of these descriptions are truebut none of them tell the whole story. Fred Sasakamoose, torn from his home at the age of seven, endured the horrors of residential school for a decade before becoming one of 120 players in the most elite hockey league in the world. He has been heralded as the first Indigenous player with Treaty status in the NHL, making his official

But when controversy arises around Aunt Georgia’s Indian Camp in their mostly white midwestern community

he was among the 300-some Dakota spared from hanging by President Lincoln

a Southern Black debutante seeking to purchase the estate

along with the endangered Ojibwe language

the Lost Colony of Roanoke

while showing them why the Ojibwe live the way they do

This time his focus is on stories: how they shape us

from her youth migrating across the High Plains with her people to their forced settlement on the reservation

expand on their work—about gaming and sovereignty

They were German and English

whether on reservations or in cities

language loss