History on the Web / L’Histoire sur la toile

• Main Author: Wright, Miriam
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Historical Association / Société historique du Canada 2019
• Subjects: Harding; First Nations
• Online Access: https://depot.erudit.org/id/004463dd

Sports headlines over the past few years remind us of the ways that race and sports intersect in both the past and the present. Willie O’Ree’s induction into the Hockey Hall of Fame, NFL player protests, and ethnic slurs hurled at First Nations hockey players, among others, all suggest that sports c...