Early life Sasakamoose was of Cree descent. He was born in Debden, Saskatchewan and grew up on the Ahtahkakoop Indian Reserve in Saskatchewan and learned to play ice hockey at an Indian residential school in Duck Lake, Saskatchewan . He was one of 11 children, of whom six died in childhood from smallpox. When he was six years old, Canadian authorities forced Saskamoose and his brother into a truck , under the pretenses of providing them with a better education .
Early life Sasakamoose was of Cree descent. He was born in Debden, Saskatchewan and grew up on the Ahtahkakoop Indian Reserve in Saskatchewan . He was one of 11 children, of whom six died in childhood from smallpox. When he was six years old, Canadian authorities forced Saskamoose and his brother into a truck and took them to an Indian residential school in Duck Lake, Saskatchewan. It was there he learned to play ice hockey .
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and learned to play ice hockey at an Indian residential school in Duck Lake, Saskatchewan
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, under the pretenses of providing them with a better education
and took them to an Indian residential school in Duck Lake, Saskatchewan. It was there he learned to play ice hockey