Lecture 7.5 - Recapping Chapter 27
Lecture Overview
In this lecture, we are going to review Chapter 27.
Review
Although hockey is a traditionally European game, Indigenous Canadians love it and excel at it.
Lacrosse – played with stick and a rock (still played today) Lacrosse was started by the Native American Indians and was originally known as stickball. The game was initially played in the St.Lawrence Valley area by the Algonquian tribe and they were followed by other tribes in the eastern half of North America, and around the western Great Lakes.
This emphasizes the point that not all forms of cultural exchange between European Canadians and Indigenous Canadians are necessarily harmful. Saul’s life seems to be moving in the right direction: he’s excelling at his sport, and he also seems to have found a surrogate family in the Kelly’s and Virgil their son and team captain. Saul embraces every challenge he comes across on the rink, knowing that it will strengthen him. Hockey remains one of the greatest sources of pleasure in his life.
This lesson will contain an OF Learning assessment.