Abby Roque is an American ice hockey forward set to make history at the 2022 Winter Olympics. Get to know more about her journey to Beijing here.
Despite professional hockey being overwhelmingly white, Roque -- a member of the Ojibwe tribe of the First Nations of Canada -- sees hockey and indigenous culture as complementary to one another with both invoking a deep sense of community. NBC LX’s My New Favorite Olympian
In her junior season, Roque helped lead the Badgers to the 2018-19 NCAA national championship in women’s hockey. Roque was raised along the Michigan-Canadian border, where it’s cold nearly nine months a year. She described her hometown of Sault Ste. Marie as a “hockey community,” where everyone is involved with the sport in one way or another.
is particularly popular in northern Michigan and Canada where there are large concentrations of Indigenous people. Roque is Ojibwe, one of the Indigenous populations of the First Nations. The First Nations are one of three major groups of Indigenous communities in Canada., is chief of the Wahnapitae. As chief, he is working alongside other First Nation leaders to increase access and resources to young athletes in their community, starting with an ice rink.
“I kind of had to squeeze them into the stall together,” Ferroni said in an interview with NBC LX’s My Favorite Olympian podcast. “But you know, there's an influence right there.”Many of Roque’s childhood friends were Native American but at Wisconsin, she skated with dozens of athletes who had never met a Native American or Indigenous person.
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