Indigenous sport leader Chief Dr. Wilton Littlechild was named as an inductee into Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame on Wednesday.
Littlechild, along with inductees will receive the Order of Sport on Nov. 4 at the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, Que.
Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame has inducted over 750 Canadians as athletes, builders and trailblazers since 1955.
Littlechild will be recognized by the Hall a second time after entering as a builder in 2018.
The 82-year-old from Maskwacis established the first all-Indigenous hockey team in Alberta in the 1970s, co-founded the North American Indigenous Games in 1990 and was a proponent of the International Indigenous Games first held in 2015.
He was the first Treaty First Nations person elected to Parliament in Canada in 1988.
The Hall will also extend Legacy awards this year to sports businessman Larry Tanenbaum, the Southern family of Calgary’s Spruce Meadows and the Canada Games Council and Special Olympics Canada.
Edmonton’s Tim Adams, the founder and executive director of Free Play for Kids, will receive a community champion award.
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