Nipissing University is proud to present this exclusive release of the documentary movie Warriors. Emerging from the Nipissing First Nation Culture and Heritage history preservation project, the movie was jointly produced by Dr. Katrina Srigley, professor of History; and Glenna Beaucage, Nipissing First Nation culture and heritage manager, in association with Regan Pictures.
The remarkable Nipissing Warriors hockey team played from 1965 – 1975. Few could have imagined their success or popularity when community members began pushing for an all-Anishinaabe team to play in the all-white, predominantly Francophone, Industrial League in Sturgeon Falls in the 1960s. It turned out that the Warriors were very good and exceptionally popular among fans for their swift, hard-hitting play. No other team packed the Sturgeon Falls arena like they did. They won the league championship their first year and would dominate league play for almost a decade. In inter-reserve hockey they were equally successful, winning two provincial titles in the early 1970s.
As the wins and fans kept piling up, the team grew and eventually splintered into multiple teams, partially a victim of its own success as more and more people wanted to play. The legacy is carried on today in the many children who play hockey in the Little Native Hockey League.
Financial support for this project was provided by Nipissing University, Nipissing First Nation and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.
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Warriors Documentary in Nishnaabemwin Teaching and Learning Guide
This resource was created to support language learning for Nbisiing Nishnaabek Bemaajijig (Nipissing First Nation peoples) and the broader language learning communities. This community resource document can be used as a workbook to include multimodal learning opportunities (visual, auditory, kinesthetic, reading and writing). This resource will allow all ages from early years learners to second language learning adults (parents, daycare teachers, guardians) who have no prior or some Nishnaabemwin experience to develop new or existing vocabulary while learning from a multimodal resource booklet. All learners of this resource will be able to use the language to become familiar with its writing and sound system, practice basic vocabulary and phrases, and complex language structures while having audio support at your fingertips. Information technology will be able to be used for further practice of language learned such as, QR codes, to gain access to audio resource files created by the author.