Bev Beaver

Beverly "Bev" Beaver (born 1947) is a Mohawk Canadian athlete from the Six Nations Reserve in Ontario, Canada, known for her performance in fastball, hockey, and bowling.[1][2] Beaver was born to Reg and Norma Henhawk and had four siblings, Sidney Henhawk, Charlene Nuttycombe, Toni Johnson, and Justine Bomberry.[3] Beaver's competed as a professional athlete from 1961 to 1994.[4] She is known to have developed her athletic skills by playing sports with boys throughout her childhood, even becoming a prominent player on a boy's bantam hockey team at age 13.[4] Beaver played exclusively on Native fastball teams; however, she has played on non-Native teams in other sports.[4] Throughout her career she earned awards such as the Regional Tom Longboat Award for Southern Ontario (1967) and the National Tom Longboat Award (1980).[5] Beaver is credited with earning other awards for performance in fastball, hockey, and bowling.[2][4][6] Some of her hockey artifacts are in the Hockey Hall of Fame, in its diversity exhibit.[7]

  1. ^ Hall, M. Ann (2016). The Girl and the Game: A History of Women's Sport in Canada. University of Toronto Press. p. 242.
  2. ^ a b Miller, Christine; Chuchryk, Patricia Marie (1996). Women of the First Nations: Power, Wisdom, and Strength. University of Manitoba Press. p. 92.
  3. ^ "Hen hawk, Sidney James (Died on 9 Jul 2016)". Digital Collections. Retrieved March 24, 2018.
  4. ^ a b c d Forsyth, Janice; Giles, Audrey (2012). Aboriginal Peoples and Sport in Canada: Historical Foundations and Contemporary Issues. UBC Press. p. 76.
  5. ^ "List of Regional (R) and National (N) "Tom Longboat" recipients 1951-2001" (PDF). aboriginalsportcircle.ca/. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 7, 2017. Retrieved October 22, 2017.
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference :5 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ "Items of unsung First Nations women's hockey star go to Hockey Hall of Fame". 2018-04-24.