Cheryl Maloney (@Mikmaq_star) joined Puckracker to talk about her forthcoming documentary, which presents the Mi'kmaq Nation's claim to the invention of ice hockey. Cheryl is a Mi'kmaq political science professor and hockey researcher; she produced the documentary with her sister, April, a filmmaker. Cheryl discusses a 1749 account of the Mi'kmaq playing hockey, key pre-contact evidence of hockey in the Old Mi'kmaw language, and the widespread use of Mi'kmaw designed and crafted hockey sticks. Cheryl also gets into the connections her family has to the game and how it led to her discovery of the Mi'kmaq's deep ties to hockey. The documentary, The Game of Hockey: A Mi'kmaw Story, is being submitted to film festivals, but a CBC article and video on it can be found here: https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/mi-kmaq-hockey-history-nova-scotia-1.4998889.
