January 24 2024 The French Treat Taffy Abel as a Hero https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bNRghOdfkS6Eg-KzCp8p71JWlS-7pTfj/view
Jan 11 2024 Winter Olympic Centennial The story of Taffy Abel, the first Native American winter Olympian (sooeveningnews.com)
https://www.aol.com/story-taffy-abel-first-native-110749094.html
Eric Zweig story on Taffy Abel Ready, Willing, and Abel | Eric Zweig
Polish Story on Taffy Abel Chamonix Centenary, 1924. The Legacy of the Winter Games | TVP SPORT (sport-tvp-pl.translate.goog)
Native American Population: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/10/27/native-americans-2020-census/
Film 1924: HD Footage of the First Winter Olympics Ever in 1924 (youtube.com)
Heritage versus History https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/2016/08/24/real-history-native-american-team-names/89259596/
CENTENNIAL Chamonix To Celebrate Centenary Of First Winter Olympics - InTheSnow https://www.inthesnow.com/centenary-winter-olympics/
https://parents-together.org/becoming-visible-most-states-education-standards-dont-require-native-american-history-past-1900-but-thats-beginning-to-change/
https://rnt.firstnations.org/
https://www.tvo.org/article/bronzed-maple-leaf-the-true-untrue-story-of-the-nhls-first-indigenous-star RAINY DRINKWATER René Boileau - Fake Indian Taffy Abel - True Indian "It now seems likely that the NHL league’s first Indigenous player was, in fact, Clarence “Taffy” Abel." per Stephen Smith prominent Hockey Historian 1-4-2023
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Cw5xLg5qrUhIgSVl_sjKbyPXObUY9gFm/view 1924 Winter Olympics
1924 WINTER OLYMPICS - TAFFY ABEL - SHOULD HAVE BEEN GOLD.pdf - Google Drive
https://drive.google.com/file/d/111Izct2PU_Cbm8fmG3ebmMP13dJsg7Az/view
1. Ken Moore Story https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=9469&context=etd
1.1 Taffy Abel Olympic Gold https://drive.google.com/file/d/1arwV-SW3iJ3svE5sEpOccHndrDgW4OZD/view
1a. The Hockey News - (Online 10-25-22) NHL IS ASKED TO RECOGNIZE TAFFY ABEL INDIGENEITY AS BARRIER-BREAKING IN 1926 & THE FIRST NHL INDIGENOUS PLAYER IN THE NHL https://tinyurl.com/3hmhnpnn
1aa. Associated Press (Online 12-7-22) Story on Taffy Abel. Hockey’s history shows handful of non-white pioneers By STEPHEN WHYNO
1aaa. The Hockey News - (Online 11-30-22) From the Archives: The Rangers World Premiere in 1926 - The Hockey News https://thehockeynews.com/news/from-the-archives-the-rangers-world-premiere-in-1926
1b. Washington Post - (PDF) Taffy Abel Story 02-16-22 https://drive.google.com/file/d/10V2LL_I0h-HSFUKkHXwWT4nWDtfO4M8S/view?usp=sharing
1c. USA Hockey Magazine - (Online 12-1-22) http://touchpointmedia.uberflip.com/i/1483035-november-december-2022/23?
1d. New York Times 1928 NYR Stanley Cup (Online) https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1928/04/15/95569086.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1e. New York Times 1928 NYR Stanley Cup (PDF) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BEKI-nCeJyjiS8A3-MeaUOEteQEN3Vcb/view?usp=share_link
2. Washington Post - (Online) Taffy Abel 1926 Indian 02-16-22 https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/02/16/taffy-abel-native-american-winter-olympics/
2b. Michigan Historical Society - (2013 Online) Taffy Abel: a sault sensation: part Chippewa and all business, hockey defenseman Taffy Abel never backed down from a challenge on the ice--an attitude that earned him a place on the Stanley Cup https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Taffy+Abel%3A+a+sault+sensation%3A+part+Chippewa+and+all+business%2C+hockey...-a0319975273
2c. HOW TAFFY ABEL MADE INDIGENOUS OLYMPIC HOCKEY HISTORY (Online) 2-4-2022 How Taffy Abel Made Indigenous Olympic Hockey History - The Hockey News
3. Indian Country Today - (PDF) Kenneth Moore Story 2-15-22 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bZsg36-_GBpZISRx_I2yIuwdjyRI3gbc/view?usp=sharing
4. Thesis on Moore (Online) - Kenneth Moore Story 2020 https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=9469&context=etd
5. Smithsonian American Indian Museum - (PDF) Taffy Abel Story 2-3-22 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VKmkKs02KzKgl2pPpupTYoN8xZGX1-Zz/view?usp=sharing
6. Olympics - (PDF) Taffy Abel Story https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oetIc6XKqKnbDhAh93c-padLGdKca1ho/view?usp=sharing https://olympics.com/en/news/taffy-abel-first-usa-nhl-ice-hockey-indigenous-abby-roque
7. ESPN - Taffy Abel (Online) https://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/id/33332953/olympic-hockey-legend-taffy-abel-history-changing-firsts
8. CBC - Larry Kwong - 1948 POC (Online) - https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/larry-kwong-calgary-nhl-1.4582793
9. NHL - Willie O’Ree - 1958 Black (Online) - https://www.nhl.com/community/oree/goldmedal
10. Is Hockey for Everyone? Confronting Racism in the NHL (Online) https://thehockeywriters.com/nhl-confronting-racism/
11. Hockey has long been about white machismo. Can the NHL change that? (Online) https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/mar/12/hockey-nhl-racism-diversity
11a. Lazerus: Hockey is for everyone? NHL diversity report shows how false that is (Online) https://theathletic.com/3707104/2022/10/18/nhl-diversity-report/
12. Indigenous leader feels NHL could do better job of acknowledging their experience with racism (Online) https://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/nhl/nhl-racial-injustice-indigenous-1.5729070
13. There is racism still very alive and well’: The Indigenous experience in hockey (Online) https://theathletic.com/1865153/2020/06/12/there-is-racism-still-very-alive-and-well-the-indigenous-experience-in-hockey/
14. Race and ethnicity in the NHL (Online) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_ethnicity_in_the_NHL
15. Telling Stories About Indigeneity and Canadian Sport: The Spectacular Cree and Ojibway Indian Hockey Barnstorming Tour of North America,
1928 (Online Andrew Holman PhD) https://vc.bridgew.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1030&context=history_fac If Taffy Abel did not play professional hockey in the NHL he could have been relegated to Wild West Hockey Shows featuring Indians
16. Field Museum Confronts Its Outdated, Insensitive Native American Exhibition (Online) https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/field-museum-confronts-outdated-insensitive-native-american-exhibition-180980148/ https://www.fieldmuseum.org/exhibitions/native-truths-our-voices-our-stories
16a 2012 American Indian Magazine (Online) https://www.americanindianmagazine.org/sites/default/files/2018-01/NMAI-SUMMER-2012.pdf
17. Hockey, Rocked by Racist Acts —- "The N.H.L. remains the only major North American sports league not to volunteer for an audit by the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport, which publishes widely read reports on race, gender and hiring in sports and the sports media industry. Kim Davis said the league would work with the institute to establish baseline diversity statistics." {as of October 2022 the NHL has not provided the TIDES Report}“That was one of the first things Kim Davis came in and changed. She made sure February was going to be dedicated to Black History Month and every cause like Hockey Fights Cancer, LGBTQ Pride Month, everybody has their month” … {except for Native Americans} (Online) https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/10/sports/hockey/nhl-racism-protests-george-floyd.html?searchResultPosition=4
https://www.si.com/nhl/2021/01/19/akim-aliu-nhl-racial-reckoning-daily-cover
https://www.nytimes.com/article/what-is-bipoc.html
https://is.muni.cz/th/382652/ff_b/BA_Thesis.pdf
Where Did BIPOC Come From? https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kWSwj0EJuiMz2peJzrF5Cv1fWI5NwZC3/view?usp=sharing
https://globalsportmatters.com/culture/2018/05/07/what-is-the-color-of-hockey/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_ethnicity_in_the_NHL#First_Nation/Native_American_descent
https://blackhistorymonth.gov/about/
https://nativeamericanheritagemonth.gov/about/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2022/04/14/first-black-athletes-sports-pioneers/
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/11/against-land-acknowledgements-native-american/620820/
Can you pass this two question Hockey Quiz?
Q1 Who was “the first” BIPOC hockey player in the NHL?
Hint: It was not the “B” Black player Willie O’Ree in 1958 with the Boston Bruins
Answer: It was the “I” Indigenous player Taffy Abel in 1926 with the New York Rangers
Q2 Who was the “the first” hockey player to break the Color Barrier in the NHL?
Answer: It was the “I” Indigenous player Taffy Abel in 1926 with the New York Rangers