Next month, The National Aboriginal Hockey Championships will be hosted in Grande Prairie.
This is the first time the event will be held in Alberta on the Traditional Territory of Treaty 8, and will see male and female First Nation, Inuit and Metis athletes from across the country compete.
Players who have participated in past championships include former NHL’er Jordin Tootoo, Michael Ferland, Brady Keeper, Golden Knights Zach Whitecloud, Brandon Montour and Washington Capitals defenseman Ethan Bear, as well as Canadian women’s Olympic team players Brigette Lacquette, Jocelyne Larocque and Jamie Lee Rattray.
The championships will take place between May 5 – 11 at the Design Works Centre.
This years logo was designed by Ashlyn Maltais, a Métis Video Editor and Graphic Designer from Peace River.
The logo is based off the colors in a traditional medicine wheel.
It includes the wolf in Inuit style art, the eagle in Ojibway style art, the bear in Haida style art, and the buffalo in Blackfoot style art. The flower in the middle incorporates a representation of our provincial flower; the wild rose in Metis dot art. With the Hockey sticks tying it all together, this logo represents the different backgrounds and elements of Alberta and how we are all connected.
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