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Event Summary: Pushed Out of the League: Anti-Indigenous Structural Racism in Canadian Hockey

March 19, 2024

If “hockey is Canada’s game,” what does it say about ‘Canada’ and ‘hockey’ when Indigenous people are being excluded from playing the sport they love? What does it mean when all-Indigenous teams are being pushed out of leagues—ones they even helped to create? What does their marginalization tell us about Indigenous reconciliation and sport in Canada?

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First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge that the UBC Point Grey campus is situated on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm.


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