Aboriginal Athletes in the World of Professional Sports Terrence and Jordin Tootoo grew up in Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, in Canada’s arctic region. They were like other Inuit children in Rankin Inlet in many respects: They were brought up to respect the customs of their people and they enjoyed the resources the land around them provided- they learned to hunt and fish for food like the others. However, the brothers were also different from their peers in one main respect- they were blessed with a love for the game of hockey, and also with extraordinary amounts of talent which would enable them to leave their native community to pursue the dream of professional hockey. While the brothers were growing up they were inseparable; however, after leaving …show more content…
In 1999 the Canadian government offered Native Canadians an official apology for racially motivated abuse inflicted during the era of government-run Native boarding schools. The Canadian government offered $350 million towards counseling for healing the abuse that was started at these schools. It was soon discovered that counseling, supplemented by organized sports programs, was the most effective way to turn around the high suicide and depression-related health and alcohol challenges among Native youth (www.aboriginalsportcircle.com). The Canadian government continues to fund the First Nations Sports Programs. The United States Bureau of Indian Affairs quietly offered a similar apology in 2000, but has yet to offer any financial compensation. More recently sport has played a significant role in helping young Native Americans gain access to college via scholarship. In December of 2003 the National Congress of American Indians announced that the 2nd annual Native American Basketball Invitational tournament will be held in July 2004 at America West Arena, home of the Phoenix Suns. The tournament features teams of Native American high school student-athletes, male and female, allowing them an exclusive stage before college scouts. NABI 2003, which was played last July, created opportunities for four Native American students to receive college athletic scholarships (www.nays.com). In addition, the event gave Tribal leaders the opportunity to expand contact with local and national business
Saul Indian Horse is an Ojibway child who grew up in a land which offered little contact with anyone belonging to a different kind of society until he was forced to attend a residential school in which children were being stripped away of their culture with the scope of assimilating them into a more “civilized” community. Saul’s childhood in the school, greatly pervaded by psychological abuse and emotional oppression, was positively upset once one of the priests, Father Leboutillier, introduced him to the world of hockey, which soon become his sole means of inclusion and identification, mental well-being and acknowledged self-worth in his life. It is though universally acknowledged how, for every medal, there are always two inevitably opposite
Lacrosse is a traditional Native American game. The first game was witnessed by Europeans 1630s. At first it was an all men sport. Now it is both men and women
Sports played and continue to play a pivotal role in American history and culture. Baseball provided an escape from the stress and frustration of WWII, a beacon of light during hard times and later helped influence integration. Athletes became symbols of what being a true American meant and many sports enhanced American culture. One of the most prolific changes sports brought to our society was the beginning of racial equality on the field. It encouraged and aided the fledgling equal rights movement that evolved in the 1960s. African American athletes were considered second-class citizen until sports provided the first taste of equality. Teams life the Indians, Dodgers and Giants led the way for all teams to accept black players on equal footing. More sports then followed, helping to pave the way for the equal rights movement. African American athletes provided a spark of social and cultural change as America was at the emergence of the civil rights movement.
Although meditation has been used for spiritual growth, recently it has become a way of finding a peaceful bridge between stress and the fast paced world around us. It has become a way of taking time out of all the distractions and stress that occurs in our lives and relaxing and finding ourselves. Some other uses of meditation include healing, emotional cleansing and balancing, deepening concentration and insight, manifesting change, developing intuition, unlocking creativity, exploring higher realities, and finding inner guidance.
Lacrosse is one of the oldest organized sports in North America. While at one time it was a field game or ritual played by First Nations, it became popular among non-Aboriginal peoples in the mid-1800s. When the National Lacrosse Association of Canada was formed in 1867, it was the Dominion of Canada’s first governing body of sport. Lacrosse was confirmed as Canada’s official summer sport in 1994. The Canadian national lacrosse teams (men and women) rank highly in the world standings, both in field and box lacrosse. Lacrosse is a team sport in which players pass, catch, and carry a rubber ball, using sticks with a netted pouch at one end. The object of lacrosse is to gather points by shooting the ball into the opposing team's
The lacrosse players would go up to each other and smack at each other’s sticks trying to dislodge the ball. The French named the game lacrosse which means the game of the stick. Sometimes a player would hit an opposing team’s player, severely injuring the person or breaking bones. There is even one account of a player dying. Anthony Aveni an editor for History.org says, “It is quite common to see someone crippled for the rest of his life who would not have had this misfortune but for his own obstinacy” (paragraph 9). The Indians did not have a goal so they used landmarks such as rocks and trees for a goal. Jane Claydon, an editor for Federation of International Lacrosse claims, “Some estimates have mentioned between one hundred and one hundred thousand players…. On the field at one time” (paragraph 2). There are tons of players. The fields were very extreme ranging anywhere from nine hundred yards to nine miles in length. Players at one end could not see the ball at the other end. The game would last from sun up to sun down many
Lacrosse is a field sport that is very similar to both hockey and soccer. It borrows rules from soccer and involves a stick -like hockey-. It, however, differs in the fact that it is played with a long-handled stick -called a crosse- and a rubber ball that is meant to be tossed into a net with the crosse.
OK. So you’ve heard, that meditation is beneficial for you, maybe you’ve read lists about the advantages of meditation. A ton of different kind of meditations are on-line, and you found several resources, articles, blog posts about the theme to select from. These articles state, that the meditation has countless benefits, which are also proven by scientific research. You can believe them, since eminent scientists carried out extensive research on this subject. And they suggest, you should try them, and of course you should practice it each day. Every day - or you won’t have those benefits.
Meditation has been practiced for thousands of years, so there are countless variations and definitions of the practice. Most forms of meditation offer relaxation -- primarily through a quieting of the mind -- and create a "pause" from the rapid pace of our lives to let our mind and body "catch up," re-balance, and re-center.
In today’s national professional sporting community, too many Australian athletes take everything for granted. The Glamour, Publicity and their sporting attributes. Australian athletes, representing our nation, internationally and nationally showing poor behaviour both on the field and off the field. In particular, AFL, NRL and Tennis stars.
One of the largest growing sports across North America, from southern California to the outskirts of Nova Scotia, is the game of hockey. With its’ exhilarating speed and action, hockey is rapidly increasing it’s attention to an already global market. Despite rise in popularity in recent years, long existing bias and stereotypes have prevented potential fans from obtaining an appreciation for the game. In reality, hockey is a team sport than can and has been enjoyed by many for roughly 200 years. Issues such as lack of diversity and low-income players are gradually changing, making the game more accessible. Furthermore, hockey is steadily obtaining relevancy across several continents, ensuring the prestige of the game is maintained for many years to come.
Hockey is a very interesting sport but it wasn’t always called hockey it was once called Ball and stick it is almost as old as civilization itself. Its earliest origins may be from Persia, as civilization spread, so did the games. As the world went north, ball and stick moved onto ice. There were paintings in the Netherlands in the 1600s showed that the Dutch played a version of golf on the ice. The amazing team that was born in Scotland’s Edinburgh Skating Club formed in 1642 they are considered the oldest club in the world Ball-and-stick games were as old as civilization itself. Its earliest origins may be that Persia and China might be where the game came from, while archaeological evidence shows an early ball-and-stick
A man with an unknown disease was going to die. He tried every possible medication, treatment, and therapy available. None of them worked. As hopes of living were quickly diminishing, he came across a man who saved his life. This man revealed a method to him known as Self-healing through Lucid Dreaming, which after a couple of weeks helped the man make a miraculous recovery. This example helps demonstrate the idea that self-healing can be obtained through Lucid Dreaming. Lucid dreaming enables a person to be aware that they are dreaming and they therefore can control themselves within their dreams. It is possiable to achieve mental clarity while in a dream like state. By establishing a sense of the mental clarity one can heal their mind psychologically and physically, boosting levels of creativity and self realization, as well as significantly improving their problem solving skills and spike curiosity of life. Lucid Dreaming is an escape from reality that is waiting to be explored. Lucid dreaming is defined simply as, dreaming when one is aware they are doing so. The term “lucid”, meaning mental clarity, was thought of by Fredrik Van Eeden in the late 1910’s. Lucidity is normally known to happen in the midst of a dream, which happens as soon as the dreamer becomes aware that they are dreaming. At this point, the body then detaches from the mind in a way that makes most of the dreamers body not act out the dream occurring.
Aristotle was born in 384 B.C.E. at stature, a Greek colonial town on the Aegean near the Macedonian border and east of the modern city of Salonica (Britannica, encyclopaedia; 1952). He was first trained in medicine, considering his father was a physician of the royal Macedonian family. Upon this, Aristotle, later when to Athens to study philosophy at Plato 's Academy. During his time at this academy, they gave a lot of attention to the problem of politics and legislation and, its more general philosophical interest. Although their ideas were similar, Aristotle rejected Plato 's theories of form. He was more empirically-minded than Plato and Socrates. Aristotle made contributions to physics, biology, politics, agriculture, medicine, botany, dance, theater, ethics, logic and metaphysics. He is also known as the father of ‘natural law. Aristotle believed that what was “just by nature” was not always “just by law” ("Natural Law” Britannica/topic/natural-law. 26 May 2014. Web. 24 Feb. 2016). He believed that the aim of logic is to elaborate a coherent system that allows people to investigate, classify, and evaluate exceptional and atrocious forms of
Aristotle made contributions to logic, physics, biology, medicine, and agriculture. He redesigned most, if not all, areas of knowledge he studied. Later in life he became the “Father of logic” and was the first to develop a formalized way of reasoning. Aristotle was a greek philosopher who founded formal logic, pioneered zoology, founded his own school, and classified the various branches of philosophy.