Meet Brigette Lacquette, the 1st Indigenous woman on Canada’s Olympic hockey team

Source: Brad Bellegarde, CBC News, January 23, 2018 

A member of the Cote First Nation, she once played for Yorkton at the Saskatchewan First Nations Winter Games

When the announcement of the women’s Olympic hockey team roster was made in December, ripples of excitement rolled through Canada’s Indigenous community.

For the first time in Canada’s Olympic history, there is an Indigenous woman on the women’s Olympic hockey team.

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Image Source: Submitted/Canadian Sport Centre Manitoba

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