A Hockey Dream Comes True

res school chapter 6b_Layout 1 2014-09-30 7:27 PM Page 65 A Hockey Dream Comes True ockey was as popular in residential married, and continued to play hockey schools as it is in schools today. Older for several years. In 1980, he became chief Hchildren were sometimes allowed to of his reserve, stopped drinking, and began listen to National Hockey League (NHL) games to heal from the loss he felt at school. In on a radio. Boys dreamed of being a hockey star. 2010, Fred Sasakamoose was inducted into One Cree boy made the dream come true. His the Saskatchewan Hockey Hall of Fame. In name was Frederick Sasakamoose, the first 2011, he received a prestigious Aboriginal Canadian Aboriginal player in the NHL. Achievement Award. Fred and his wife Alexander, Fred’s beloved grandfather, who could Loretta are Elders at Ahtahkakoop Cree neither hear nor speak, taught him to skate on the Nation (Sandy Lake) in Saskatchewan. Sandy Lake Reserve in Saskatchewan. In 1940, a truck took Fred and his older brother Frank to St. Michael’s Indian Residential School in Duck Lake. Fred did not know where the truck was JUST A FEELING heading, nor why. All the seven-year-old boy knew was that he wanted to go home. ’m not First Nations so I went to a public school Fred skated throughout the lonely years at and lived at home. When I was in elementary St. Michael’s, encouraged by Father Georges “Ischool, our hockey team went to an away Roussel, a priest at the Catholic school. game to play against the Fort Frances Indian In the late 1940s, at the age of 15, Fred went Residential School team. I remember feeling a sadness to Moose Jaw to play junior hockey in the Western there in the kids. You see, us kids were brought to the Hockey League for four years. By the time he was game by our parents, and the residential school kids 20, he played in the NHL for the Chicago Black were alone. They held back, they didn’t open up to us.” Fred Sasakamoose (Cree), #21, played Hawks. He was seen on Hockey Night in Canada. for the Chicago Black Hawks, 1953 to Fred played 11 games in the NHL. Then he —Douglas G. Anderson, Fort Frances, Ontario 1954. Fred Sasakamoose (above) went home, where he always wanted to be, 65.

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