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With the Wild celebrating Native American Heritage night Friday against Colorado, Fleury wanted to honor his wife, Véronique, who is Native Canadian, with a specially designed mask.

Shane Gottfriedson, the former chief of the Tk'emlups Nation and British Columbia regional chief for the Assembly of First Nations, said during the event that it had "always been a fight with government" to settle Native Canadian human rights and land claims.

Fred Sasakamoose, who played 11 games in the mid-1950s, has long been recognized as the NHL’s first Native Canadian player and became well known in the First Nations community.

Mr. Young, a native Canadian who gained U.S. citizenship in 2020, previously announced he was pulling out of this year’s Live Aid, an annual benefit concert he co-founded in 1985 and usually performs at.

However, a recent study of the Canadian prohibition by the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Mass., concluded that menthol bans “are unlikely to be a panacea” because so many youths switched to non-menthol smokes and so many adults got their menthols anyway from Native Canadian reserves, which were exempted.