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Established in 1951, the Tom Longboat Award is given yearly to Indigenous athletes to recognize their athletic excellence and outstanding contributions to sport in Canada. At the inaugural National Indigenous Sports Gala, which took place on the traditional and unceded territory of the Anishinaabe Algonquin Nation in Ottawa, Ontario, the British Columbia regional winners Eli McLaughlin and Justina Di Stasio were awarded the Tom Longboat Award as Canada’s top male and female Indigenous athletes.