Devin Buffalo: Inspiring Indigenous Youth

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Hockey, Sports

4.7 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Jeff and Elliotte are joined by former professional goaltender and the owner of Waniska Athletics, Devin Buffalo. Devin tells the guys about his path to Dartmouth College, playing junior hockey in Flin Flon, why it’s important to him to inspire the Indigenous youth of today, who he looked up to growing up, how visualization helped him get to where he is today, and he shares some of his experiences as an Indigenous goaltender. If you are interested in learning more about Devin and his work, you can check out Waniska Athletics Music Outro: Status / Non Status – Find a Home Listen to their EP “1, 2, 3, 4, 500 Years” here This podcast is produced and sound designed by Amil Delic, and hosted by Jeff Marek and Elliotte Friedman. Additional editing support by Mike Rogerson. Audio Credits: CityNews and Sportsnet. The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the hosts and guests and do not necessarily reflect the position of Rogers Sports & Media or any affiliates.

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0:00.0	oncecomantality.com W-A-N-I-S-K-A mentality dot com 31 thoughts the podcast is
0:08.6	brought to you by the GMC Sierra AT4 today a special edition of the podcast
0:13.5	our conversation with Devon Buffalo we sat down with Devon last week to talk
0:18.3	about his life Devon was born in Wattasco in Alberta as a member of the
0:22.6	Samson Cree Nation he's a goalie played at Dartmouth and in the ECHL and now
0:28.3	through his company Wanska Athletics assist other native youth in pursuing their
0:33.2	dreams of playing hockey he's a motivational speaker and someone we think you'll
0:38.0	really enjoy hearing from here on the podcast but the stories his stories are a
0:44.5	times hard to hear but it's important that we do you know Eddie Robinson is an
0:49.6	indigenous speaker I really enjoy and appreciate listening to him and one of
0:54.0	the points that he always stresses when people ask how can they help
0:58.4	he says before you can help listen listen to the stories
1:03.9	as horrible and shameful as they may be it's important that understanding and
1:08.4	empathy is reached before a true reconciliation can be achieved
1:13.1	I believe that Elliott Jeff I'm not going to take a lot of time here I think this podcast is
1:18.6	about Devon Buffalo his stories and his words and his way of telling them but I
1:25.8	did want to say that as a 50-year-old Canadian I think it's really a shame that I
1:32.0	didn't know what I needed to know about the history of the Indian residential
1:36.2	schools in this country may 28th remains of 215 children found buried near the
1:43.0	Cameloubs Indian residential school in British Columbia June 4th announced the discovery
1:48.8	of 104 potential graves near the Brandon Indian residential school in Manitoba June 25th
1:57.7	as many as 751 Unmarked Graves in Saskatchewan and June 30th 182 Unmarked Gravesites discovered
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