Kenneth Moore, First Nations athlete who won 1932 Olympic gold for Canada, gets hall of fame recognition

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Jennifer Rattray says she was proud to see her grandfather recognized posthumously for his achievements as one of Canada’s first Indigenous Olympic gold medallists.

Rattray’s grandfather, Kenneth Moore, was inducted to the North American Indigenous Athletic Hall of Fame during a ceremony in Wisconsin on Saturday, she says.

“I spent the whole day, of course, thinking about my grandfather [and] everything that he … and our family endured: the loss of his two older brothers at residential school and the really challenging life that he had,” Rattray, who serves on CBC/Radio-Canada’s board of directors but is currently on leave, said Saturday.

“The other side of

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