This Sunday night, hockey fans will have a chance to hear something historic. For the first time, an NHL game will be called on APTN in Plains Cree 👏 | TheCurrentCBC
Clarence Iron will call game between the Montreal Canadiens and the Carolina HurricanesClarence Iron hosts in his Plains Cree language on the Pinehouse Sask. Radio station CFNK 89.9 FM. He will be calling play-by-play on the APTN broadcast of the NHL game Sunday evening.This Sunday night, hockey fans will have a chance to hear something historic. For the first time, an NHL game will be called on APTN in Plains Cree.
"Things have changed. Now we are being set free. We can speak our language anywhere at all. I'm not scared to speak Cree in front of a crowd or the whole nation," he said. "Thinking of our Indigenous people around the nation, they deserve something like this. We need to showcase our talents," he said.Iron said he isn't nervous to call Sunday's game between the Montreal Canadiens and the Carolina Hurricanes. He just has some memorization do to.
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