The only one who controls where you go is you.’ ”“I just told her, beat them on the ice,” says Terance Lacquette, whose daughter Brigette is the first Indigenous woman on Canada’s national women’s hockey team, which plays for Olympic gold here in Pyeongchang on Thursday (Wednesday, 10:45 p.m. Her older cousins played street hockey and she joined in at the age of 4. Lacquette re-enlisted in the Hockey Canada development program without any guarantees. She was officially the first First Nations player on Canada’s national Olympic women’s hockey team. On a hockey team there can be kids of all different colours.”Hockey, like Canada, can be a monoculture.

Source: thestar February 20, 2018 14:31 UTC