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Peter Deer
St.Louis, Canada's First Indigenous Olympians and Olympic Gold Medals Awarded for the first time, before that it was just regular trophies. Peter Deer was from Kahnawake Mohawk Territory in QC. and he was the first Indigenous athlete to represent Canada on a international stage. Peter came in 6th place in the 1,500 metre race. -
Tom Longboat
London, Tom Longboat is one of Canada's greatest long distance runners and was from Onandaga First Nation. He won the 1907 Boston Marathon. Tom competed the Olympic Marathon and he was so exhausted that he collapsed 10 kilometres before the end. Tom was inducted into Canada's sports Hall of frame in 1955. -
Alexander Wuttence Decouteau
StockHolm, Alexander was from the Red Pheasant Cree Nation in Saskatchewan. He was the first Indigenous Canadian police officer in 1909. He became the only Albertan athlete for the1912 Olympics and came in 8th place during the 5, 000 metre final due to a leg cramp before at the end of the race. Alexander was inducted into the Edmonton Sports Hall of Fame in 1967. -
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WWI
1916 Berlin Summer Olympics Games were cancelled due to the First World War. Joseph Benjamin Keeper, was a member of the Norway House Cree Nation in Saskatchenwan and was suppose to participant as an runner in the Marathon.
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Jim Thorpe
1920, Jim Thorpe (Sac and Fox) was the greatest athlete of all time. Although, he faced racist difficulties with sports politics and was labelled “just an ignorant Indian”. 1913 to 1928,Thorpe played professional baseball and football. His teams won many games but never a championship, and he was always the main attraction. In 1920's, he helped organize an All-Indian NFL team, the Oorang Indians. Thorpe barnstormed with a basketball team called "Jim Thorpe and His world famous Indians." -
Taffy Abel
1924, Taffy Abel, was from Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. The first Native American (Sault Chippewa) NHL player on January 25, 1924 to compete and win a Silver Medal in the Winter Olympics for Team USA. Abel scored 15 goals for the United States in the tournament and he was the captain. Taffy went on in 1926 to debuted with the New York Rangers on November 16, 1926, and then he played with the Chicago Blackhawks between 1929 and 1935. -
The Cree and Ojibway Barnstorming Hockey tour(Hockey in Society)
On January 12, 1928, two hockey teams composed entirely of First Nations players took to the ice at Ravina Gardens on Rowland Street for a “a very speedy and clever game of hockey,” as one newspaper described it. In just 60 days, the two teams would travel to over a dozen Ontario and American cities, playing exhibitions against each other or local teams. https://torontoist.com/2012/01/historicist-the-cree-ojibway-indian-hockey-tour/ -
Kenneth Moore
Kenneth Moore, Peepeekisis Cree Nation, is the first Indigenous person to represent Canada in the Winter Olympics and the first to win gold, and. He was a member of the hockey team that topped the podium at the 1932 games in Lake Placid, New York. -
Ellison Tarzan Brown
Ellison 'Tarzan' Brown was a two-time winner of the Boston Marathon. He was also an Olympic athlete and a member of the Narragansett Tribe in Rhode Island. Also known as Deerfoot amongst his people. He was inducted into the American Indian Athletic Hall of Fame in 1973. Brown set the American men's record in 1939 Boston Marathon(2:28:51) and at the 1940 marathon in Salisbury Beach, Massachusetts (2:27:30).
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WWII
Outbreak of World War Two cancelled it. The Olympics were suppose to happen in Berlin. Also called Second World War, conflict that involved virtually every part of the world during the years 1939–45. The principal belligerents were the Axis powers—Germany, Italy, and Japan—and the Allies—France, Great Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, and, to a lesser extent, China.