Historically, Aboriginal people’s presence in Canadian sport history is seen to be very limited and not prominent. This group of people is seen to be inferior to the main, dominant culture that is white people. Ballem (1983) asserts that when Indian athletes participated in sport they were expected to win due to their natural abilities, and when they lost they were considered inferior due to the lack of training ability to compete against the white man (p. 33). Europeans were generally seen as the correct and dominant culture in Canada. They were perceived to be the most influential people because they had a strong militaristic presence, money, tradition of playing sport, land, equipment for sport and most of all, social status, therefore
