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WHAT IT’S LIKE TO… COACH IN INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES

MEL SQUIRE and family run the Iroquois Roots rugby project from the Six Nations Reserve in Ontario, Canada, and she laughs of the shared name with Europe’s beloved rugby tournament: “I honestly think that’s how a lot of people stumble upon our website!”

The project’s goal is to take rugby into the indigenous populations of Ontario. Part of the Turtle Clan of the Mohawk Nation, Squire and her children are proud members of the Iroquois Confederacy – made up of six First Nations from Southern Ontario (Mohawk, Oneida, Cayuga, Seneca,

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