HSPLS site
Login
My List - 0
Help
Search
My Account
Databases
HI Newspaper
eBooks/Audiobooks
Learning
PC Reservation
Reading Program
Basic
Advanced
Power
History
Search:
Title Browse
Author Browse
Subject Browse
Best Seller Browse
Music Title Browse
Video/DVD Title Browse
Journal/Newspaper Title Browse
Serial Title Browse
Series Browse (includes Bestseller List)
General Keyword
Title Keyword
Author Keyword
Subject Keyword
Name Keyword
Series Keyword
Score Title Browse
Talking Book Title Browse
Awards Note Browse
Bib No.
Barcode
Refine Search
> You're searching:
HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
Item Information
Holdings
Summary
More Content
More by this author
Sasakamoose, Fred, 1933-2020, author.
Subjects
Sasakamoose, Fred, 1933-2020.
Hockey players -- Canada -- Biography.
Cree Indians -- Saskatchewan -- Biography.
Browse Catalog
by author:
Sasakamoose, Fred, 1933-2020, author.
by title:
Call me Indian : fro...
MARC Display
Call me Indian : from the trauma of residential school to becoming the NHL's first Treaty Indigenous player / Fred Sasakamoose ; with Meg Masters.
by
Sasakamoose, Fred, 1933-2020, author.
[Toronto, Ontario] : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited, 2021.
Subjects
Sasakamoose, Fred, 1933-2020.
Hockey players -- Canada -- Biography.
Cree Indians -- Saskatchewan -- Biography.
ISBN:
9780735240018 (hardcover) :
0735240019 (hardcover)
Description:
xvii, 268 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Requests:
0
Summary:
"Trailblazer. Residential school survivor. First Indigenous player in the NHL. All of these descriptions are true--but none of them tell the whole story. Fred Sasakamoose suffered abuse in a residential school for a decade before becoming one of 125 players in the most elite hockey league in the world--and has been heralded as the first Canadian Indigenous player with Treaty status in the NHL. He made his debut with the 1954 Chicago Black Hawks on Hockey Night in Canada and taught Foster Hewitt how to correctly pronounce his name. Sasakamoose played against such legends as Gordie Howe, Jean Beliveau, and Maurice Richard. After twelve games, he returned home. When people tell Sasakamoose's story, this is usually where they end it. They say he left the NHL after only a dozen games to return to the family and culture that the Canadian government had ripped away from him. That returning to his family and home was more important to him than an NHL career. But there was much more to his decision than that. Understanding Sasakamoose's decision to return home means grappling with the dislocation of generations of Indigenous Canadians. Having been uprooted once, Sasakamoose could not endure it again. It was not homesickness; a man who spent his childhood as "property" of the government could not tolerate the uncertainty and powerlessness of being a team's property. Fred's choice to leave the NHL was never as clear-cut as reporters have suggested. And his story was far from over. He continued to play for another decade in leagues around Western Canada. He became a band councillor, served as Chief, and formed athletic programs for kids. He paved a way for youth to find solace and meaning in sports for generations to come. This isn't just a hockey story; Sasakamoose's groundbreaking memoir intersects Canadian history and Indigenous politics, and follows his journey to reclaim pride in an identity that had previously been used against him."--
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Status
Hawaii Kai Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
796.96209 Sasakamoose Sa
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Hawaii State Library
Art, Music & Recreation
796.96209 Sasakamoose Sa
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Hilo Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
796.96209 Sasakamoose Sa
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Kailua-Kona Public Library
Adult Biography
B Sasakamoose Sa
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Kihei Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
796.96209 Sasakamoose Sa
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9884
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.