Exploring Theme: "Commitments to Public Education"

Angela Chalmers will be inducted into Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame this October. Windspeaker.com: Former middle-distance running star Angela Chalmers will return to Canada for a quick visit this fall. Chalmers, a member of Birdtail Sioux First Nation in Manitoba, has been living in Australia for the past 24 years. She’ll return as one of...

On Oilers home ice, a message from Littlechild plays on Rogers Place video screens, welcoming the crowd to Treaty 6 territory A First Nations land recognition video narrated by Chief Willie Littlechild plays on video screens prior to Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final on Thursday, June 13, 2024, in Edmonton, Alberta. The Edmonton...

Tom Longboat and his great, great, great niece Cindy Martin. Windspeaker.com: Even before he was a teenager, legendary First Nations runner Tom Longboat had come close to covering the marathon distance of 42.2 kilometres while trying to escape residential school. Longboat’s great, great, great niece Cindy Martin provided details of his life during a keynote...

Windspeaker.com: The elite athletic career of Trina Ross started off innocently enough.Five years ago, Ross, who was a casual rower and a canoeist, signed up two of her children for canoeing/kayaking sessions.“I saw the dragon boat team then and decided to try it out,” Ross said. Fast forward to September 2022 and Ross ended up...

WindSpeaker: “…the fact that we get to practice our ceremony and culture today is not only a blessing, it’s a bit of a miracle because, remember, those ceremonies were outlawed.” —Michael Linklater A pair of former elite athletes were among the panelists gathered at an event in Calgary last week to discuss the importance of...

NationTalk: A new multi-use facility in Trenton will house the Pictou County Sports Hall of Fame and serve as an events and meeting space for the community. The Province is investing almost $1.5 million in the project, which will also support development of new exhibits highlighting the accomplishments of African Nova Scotian and Mi’kmaw athletes...

NationTalk: The North American Indigenous Games Council, are excited to announce the inaugural North American Indigenous Games Hall of Honour. The Hall of Honour invites all of Turtle Island to celebrates sporting excellence and outstanding achievement on and off the field of play by nominating acclaimed alumni to celebrate for the 2023 North American Indigenous...

The Manitoba Aboriginal Sports & Recreation Council, as well as the Aboriginal Sports Circle, are pleased to announce that the 2022 Tom Longboat Award winners have been announced!  The Tom Longboat Awards were established in 1951 to recognize Aboriginal athletes for their outstanding contributions to sport in Canada. With a few exceptions, the Awards have been given out...

APTN News – Canadian Sports Hall of Fame unveiled a new, first of its kind educational exhibit in Calgary. Titled the Indigenous Sport Heroes Education Experience, the exhibit will offer a glimpse into the truths and experiences of Indigenous hall of famers. The online exhibit features 16 “chapters,” 14 of which are dedicated to the...

The National Post ran a story on Alex Decoteau: Saskatchewan’s first Olympian, Canada’s first Indigenous police officer.  He was inducted into the Edmonton Sports Hall of Fame in 1967, 50 years after he was killed by a sniper’s bullet at Passchendaele in 1917. Decoteau, from Red Pheasant Cree Nation near North Battleford, was the first...

Held a recent feature exhibit on the Great War and Manitoba athletes who partook; a feature case dedication was given to Joe Keeper and Angela Chalmers (for Women in Sport exhibit). In addition, the current Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame exhibit includes celebrating 40 years of inductions and features 500+ individuals and teams since 1980...

Windspeaker: A new online exhibit launched by Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame includes a handful of segments related to the Indigenous sporting history of the country. The exhibit, which went online in late December and is free to the public, is titled Canadian History and Society: Through the Lens of Sport. The entire exhibit can be...

The Toronto 2017 NAIG introduces #Team88 to promote the positive impacts of sport and wellness within Indigenous communities and to bring a focus to all TRC recommendations recognizing sport as an important pathway to reconciliation....

The Aboriginal Sports Circle is Canada’s national voice for aboriginal sports, physical activity and recreation. They give out the annual Tom Longboat awards....