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NFT: NHL: Canadians v Hurricanes, broadcast in Cree

ColHowPepper : 3/26/2019 10:05 am

Wonderful story, first time ever broadcast in indigenous language of aboriginal players

Quote:

MONTREAL — Fred Sasakamoose thought this day would never come.

Sasakamoose, the N.H.L.’s first Indigenous player when he skated in 11 games with the Chicago Black Hawks during the 1953-54 season, watched from the Ahtahkakoop Cree Nation in northern Saskatchewan on Sunday night as the Montreal Canadiens battled the Carolina Hurricanes — and heard his own language.

It was the first N.H.L. broadcast in Plains Cree, the Algonquian language he grew up speaking.

This was years in the making, going back to the 2010 Vancouver Olympics and the dogged pursuit by the Aboriginal People's Network, a Canadian cable entity.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/25/sports/nhl-cree-broadcast.html

Pretty damn cool Â

Jints in Carolina : 3/26/2019 10:21 am : link

for sure, Jints Â

ColHowPepper : 3/26/2019 10:38 am : link

can't imagine how it must feel to some of these people, nearing the ends of their lives, and hearing a game, a North American game, broadcast in the language of their childhoods, must be chills down the spine

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ColHowPepper : 3/26/2019 10:38 am : link

a game originated in NA