Call Me Indian: From the Trauma of Residential School to Becoming the Nhl's First Treaty Indigenous Player Hidatsa is a foundational story that

is a foundational story that remains largely untold in histories of early America

were forced onto the barren Crow Creek reservation in Dakota Territory with the rest of the Dakota women

oral tradition has been fading

former principal chief of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians

spiritual and physical manifestations

Call Me Indian: From the Trauma of Residential School to Becoming the Nhl's First Treaty Indigenous Player Hidatsa is a foundational story thatTrailblazer. Residential school Survivor. First Treaty Indigenous player in the NHL. All of these descriptions are truebut none of them tell the whole story. Fred Sasakamoose, torn from his home at the age of seven, endured the horrors of residential school for a decade before becoming one of 120 players in the most elite hockey league in the world. He has been heralded as the first Indigenous player with Treaty status in the NHL, making his official