RHA NATIONALS
Nakodan
Greyeyes:
Earning
plenty
of looks
The RHA Nationals program has
provided a number of opportunities
for its young players this season.
However, while a successful
inaugural season is over for the
Nationals’ Prep Midgets, it hasn’t
ended for team captain Nakodan
Greyeyes. There is still one big
tournament remaining to play.
By Jim Timlick
Photos by Bruce Fedyck
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akodan Greyeyes has always been
proud of his indigenous roots.
Although he’s spent most of his for-
mative years in Winnipeg, Greyeyes has enjoyed
a sense of connectedness to his Ojibwe heritage
and his mom and dad’s First Nations communities
of Fairford and Peguis respectively.
Few things have filled him with more pride than
the occasions when he got to slip on a Fairford
hockey jersey and represent the community at a
tournament.
Greyeyes, 16, will soon have an opportunity to
represent both his indigenous and hockey com-
munities on one of the biggest stages in the
country. The six-foot centre from the Rink Hockey
Academy Nationals will play for Team Manitoba at
the 2017 National Aboriginal Hockey Champion-
ships, May 1 to 6 in Cowichan Valley, B.C.