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Sports in North America have been traditionally enjoyed by athletes, fans, corporations, and everyone involved directly or indirectly on Indigenous Peoples' traditional territories.  
 
Sports intends to serve as entertainment and health purposes.  
 
Personal attacks are unacceptable but they are a sad reality faced between fans and teammates. along with family members of opposing teams, even discrimination occurs in teams which are human right violations based on race, religion, political associations, sex, and gender.  
 
In Canada we have basic human rights which should be respected universally and violations should be treated as deviant.  
 
How do we ensure everyone is safe and their basic human rights are respected?  
 
Our ancestors who've passed on did not defend democracy for it to only be corrupted and violated.

hockey games we attended a "fan" was yelling racial slur towards a player. One of the reasons we stopped going to hockey games  
 
We can all do better. We have to speak up against those that use that language. If more people sitting in the stands would speak up we would be in a better place.  
 
Just read Fred Sasakamoose book "Call Me Indian". It was a great read. And if more people would read books like Fred's then they would be more accepting of Indigenous people. They are just like everyone else.  
 
One thing sports organizations could do is invite FN to come to the arena and have a ceremony, that's always nice to see.

In the NHL we have the Edmonton Oilers who just recently had the National Anthem performed in Cree and English. Some years ago the Winnipeg Jets had the anthem performed in Ojibwe.  
 
The Chicago Blackhawks culturally appropriated that logo with a Land Acknowledgment before every NHL home game in order to sustain the Original 6 logo.  
 
Ethan Maskwa had his last name for the Oilers in Cree Syllabics and made a ton of currency from autographed jersey sales.  
 
The beauty of capitalism-"wealth within wealth" as it has been since the beginning of capitalism.  
 
Other sports teams too have had to change their team names. Washington's NFL team is no longer the Washington Red Skins, controversial news headlines in the Dallas media years ago was, 'Cowboys Gun Down Red Skins.'  
 
These may not be issues to people, but the cultural disrespect by use of appropriation is now being recovered from under the rug, it could be offensive to even non-Indigenous peoples themselves as they may be gearing towards Indigenous cultures, norms, and customs and values.  
 
Today is Indigenous Aboriginal Veteran's Day. Tommy Prince is a name others can research up and why he would be honoured, historically enfranchisement took place to even partake in marriage, but that is still an issue today, the Government themselves are still about the first Prime Minister's goal to kill the Indian in the child.  
 
Again, when these real Canadian historical issues arise, they are open to misinterpretation due to a lack of education, even from a non-biased perspective.  
 
But, how can an issue go so long to not be discussed at a Brandon Wheat King game of a Land Acknowledgement and Ceremony. If the Dakota Ojibwe Sioux drum groups got together to do a round dance of the whole Westoba Place, it would be documented in the textbooks.  
 
Innovation with The Seven Grandfather Teachings can advance Reconciliation on Turtle Island.

The terms of Aboriginal/Aboriginals have been deemed offensive with the meaning of Original to the country and being abnormal.  
 
Indian, Aboriginal, and Indigenous are now legal ways of reference in customary and civil law when delegations concur regarding such matters.  
 
The Rule of Law of 1215 of Britain The Magna Carta has its origins to what we now call Canadian Law. Quebec has its own previous attempt at wanting to separate from Canada if I dusted out my old history books I can cite the details here, if anybody is interested in those feel free to add them for discussion.  
 
Sports are a means of the capitalists who want to make money, but will they give an edge to be given a lesser edge? They don't call it Native Pride for nothing.