Exploring Theme: "Sports Organization Commitments"

The Norway House Cree Nation’s parks and recreation staff attended a news conference March 18 announcing details of the 2025 Manitoba Indigenous Summer Games. WindSpeaker.com: The Manitoba Indigenous Summer Games will return in 2025 following a 14-year hiatus. The Manitoba Aboriginal Sports & Recreation Council (MASRC), which is the governing body of Indigenous athletics and...

Organizers hope different leagues will offer ‘come-try’ sessions, ideally at no cost CBC Indigenous: Sports organizations across Prince Edward Island are being encouraged to invite Indigenous youth to come and try their sport.  The P.E.I. Aboriginal Sport Circle invited Island sport groups to Abegweit First Nation in Scotchfort recently to learn more about Mi’kmaw culture, as...

The Masters Indigenous Games are scheduled for Ottawa from August 5-8, 2021. The games provide Indigenous adults aged 20 years and older, the opportunity to compete against their peers in a variety of contemporary and traditional sporting activities. The Games bring together thousands of Indigenous athletes from around the world to compete in sport competitions,...

AACP is a partnership between the Aboriginal Sport Circle (ASC), Canada’s Provincial/Territorial Aboriginal Sport Bodies (PTASBs), Provincial/Territorial Coaching Representatives (PTCRs), the Canada Games Council (CGC), and the Coaching Association of Canada (CAC). It provides the opportunity for each province and territory to send two (2) coaches of Aboriginal ancestry to the Canada Games in apprenticeship roles....

The tour features sport clinics and multi-sport camps to help develop sport specific skills for those just starting out or wanting to try something new, tryouts, competitions and tournaments for those already at the competitive level, and an athlete identification program, which identifies athletes at partner and community sport events, who have the potential to...

23 women and 12 Indigenous coaches from across Canada will meet in Red Deer, AB to participate in the 2019 Canada Winter Games Feb. 15 – Mar 3.  The CCAP provides women and Indigenous coaches with a practical and integrated major national multi-sport games experience....

The AACP is a partnership between the Aboriginal Sport Circle (ASC), the Provincial/Territorial Aboriginal Sport Bodies (PTASBs), the Provincial/Territorial Coaching Representatives (PTCRs), the Canada Games Council (CGC), and the Coaching Association of Canada (CAC). The program provides the opportunity for each province and territory to send two NCCP coaches of aboriginal ancestry to the Canada...

Annual funding of $800,000 is to ensure accessible and inclusive recreational sport systems are in place to improve the health and well-being of Indigenous communities through sport participation through four flagship programs: Athlete Development, Coaching Development, Competition/Games Opportunities and Recognition of Excellence....

#Team88 emerged from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action, recommendation 88 calls on all levels of government to take action to ensure long-term Indigenous athlete development and growth through continued support of the North American Indigenous Games (NAIG).  Developing legacy initiatives, NAIG is and continues to be the catalyst of supporting the importance...

The AACP is a partnership between the Aboriginal Sport Circle (ASC), the Provincial/Territorial Aboriginal Sport Bodies (PTASBs), the Provincial/Territorial Coaching Representatives (PTCRs), the Canada Games Council (CGC), and the Coaching Association of Canada (CAC). The program provides the opportunity for each province and territory to send two NCCP coaches of aboriginal ancestry to the Canada...