By Sam Laskaris Writer Many of the country’s top Indigenous athletes converged in Ottawa on Saturday to be recognized for their achievements with awards honouring a Six Nations legendary figure. The National Indigenous Sports Gala featured regional and the national Tom Longboat Award recipients. The Tom Longboat Awards are annually presented by the Aboriginal Sport Circle, the country’s governing body for Indigenous athletics. They are named after the famous Six Nations long-distance runner, who won the 1907 Boston Marathon and also competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics. The regional winners at Saturday’s gala were representing their province or territory. And they were all eligible for the national award as well. The national recipients ended up being luger Trinity Ellis, a Métis Nation British Columbia citizen who has represented Canada in…
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