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They call me chief : warriors on ice

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"They Call Me Chief tells the fascinating stories of First Nations, Metis and Inuit athletes who overcame tremendous obstacles to star in the National Hockey League. From Fred Sasakamoose (Chief Running Deer on Skates), who emerged from Canada's infamous Indian Residential School system to become the first Indian to play in the NHL to Reggie Leach (the Riverton Rifle), whose battle with the bottle is the only thing that kept him out of the Hockey Hall of Fame. They Call Me Chief chronicles the journeys of North American's most famous "warriors on ice" as they battle racism, poverty, culture shock, isolation and other roadblocks to success. They Call Me Chief is essential reading not only for fans of Canada's national game, but as an integral chapter of North American culture and history. In this cleverly detailed book, we meet a collection of very different men who become authors of their own stories. There is the story of Fred Sasakamoose, who misses his wife back home on the 'Rex'. After being denied a plane ticket, Fred takes a taxi 700 miles to get her. Or when "half-breed" Bryan Trottier must use the family border collie as a gollie to practice a shot that would lead him to seven Stanly Cup championships. And when Ted Nolan, an NHL Coach of the Year, is blacklisted, and must also endure racist taunts and the tomahawk chop on his way back to the top. Then there is Ron Delrome, who is beaten and chased out of South Dakota by rednecks because funding for their new arena is jeopardized by protests from local Indian tribes who object to being used as mascots by the UND "Fighting Sioux." The "Puch-up in Pieztany" begins with Everett Sanipass (MicMac) and Theo Fleury (Metis) and the longest Stanly Cup drought in Toronto Maple Leafs history begins when the reign of the longest serving captain in the NHL history (Goerge "The Chief" Armstron) ends.

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Title

They call me chief : warriors on ice

Call No

GV 848.5 A1 M37 2008

Authors

Marks, Don, 1953-2016

Subjects

National Hockey League.--Biography.
Indigenous hockey players--Canada--Biography.
Indigenous hockey players--Canada--Biography.
Aboriginal hockey players--Canada--History.
Native peoples--Canada--History.

Language

English

Published

Winnipeg : J. G. Shillingford Pub., 2008.

Publication Desc

279 pages : illustrations, portraits. ;.

ISBN

9781897289341

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General Note

Includes index.
On cover: The story of Indians in the NHL ; with a foreword by Phil Fontaine.
Accompanying DVD missing.
DVD documentary located in Elders Audiovisual under call number E 98 G2 T54 2001.

Summary

"They Call Me Chief tells the fascinating stories of First Nations, Metis and Inuit athletes who overcame tremendous obstacles to star in the National Hockey League. From Fred Sasakamoose (Chief Running Deer on Skates), who emerged from Canada's infamous Indian Residential School system to become the first Indian to play in the NHL to Reggie Leach (the Riverton Rifle), whose battle with the bottle is the only thing that kept him out of the Hockey Hall of Fame. They Call Me Chief chronicles the journeys of North American's most famous "warriors on ice" as they battle racism, poverty, culture shock, isolation and other roadblocks to success.

They Call Me Chief is essential reading not only for fans of Canada's national game, but as an integral chapter of North American culture and history. In this cleverly detailed book, we meet a collection of very different men who become authors of their own stories. There is the story of Fred Sasakamoose, who misses his wife back home on the 'Rex'. After being denied a plane ticket, Fred takes a taxi 700 miles to get her. Or when "half-breed" Bryan Trottier must use the family border collie as a gollie to practice a shot that would lead him to seven Stanly Cup championships. And when Ted Nolan, an NHL Coach of the Year, is blacklisted, and must also endure racist taunts and the tomahawk chop on his way back to the top. Then there is Ron Delrome, who is beaten and chased out of South Dakota by rednecks because funding for their new arena is jeopardized by protests from local Indian tribes who object to being used as mascots by the UND "Fighting Sioux." The "Puch-up in Pieztany" begins with Everett Sanipass (MicMac) and Theo Fleury (Metis) and the longest Stanly Cup drought in Toronto Maple Leafs history begins when the reign of the longest serving captain in the NHL history (Goerge "The Chief" Armstron) ends.