Page 7 - Indigenous Peoples in Sports - Indigenous Peoples' Contributions to Canada

The match has been called the marathon of the century. Shrubb was ahead

of Longboat at first. But Longboat managed to pull ahead of Shrubb to win

the race.

WOMEN IN SUMMER SPORTS

Waneek Horn-Miller was cocaptain of Canada’s first Olympic women’s water polo

team. The team finished fifth at the Sydney Olympics in 2000. She is Mohawk

from the Kahnawake community. As a teenager Horn-Miller was involved in the

1990 Oka Crisis. The Oka Crisis was a 78-day standoff in Oka, Quebec, between

Mohawk protesters and law enforcement. Horn-Miller was badly injured. Once
she healed, she used the memory of that experience to help push her toward

her goal of going to the Olympics.

Mary Spencer is Ojibwa. She’s from INQUIRY QUESTIONS
the Chippewa of Nawash Unceded First

Nation. Spencer represented Canada as a Why is it important for Indigenous

middleweight boxer at the London 2012 Peoples to participate in sports
and activities such as lacrosse,
Summer Olympics. Spencer started boxing
kayaking, and archery? What can
when she was 16 years old. She won her non-Indigenous people learn
first world title in 2005. She has volunteered about Indigenous Peoples from
watching competitions such as
with Motivate Canada’s GEN7 Aboriginal the NAIG?

role-model program. GEN7 teaches
Indigenous children how to live a healthy life

by playing sports and being active.

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