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Breaking Ground as the First Native North American Professional Team Owner

In May, Styres paid $5.5 million to buy a 60 percent controlling share of the Rochester Knighthawks of the National Lacrosse League, and an undisclosed price for the Americans. He says he thinks he is the first individual American Indian - known in Canada as First Nations people - to own a major professional sports franchise. The Mohegan Tribe owns the Connecticut Sun of the W.N.B.A. "He's one of the truly successful First Nations entrepreneurs in Canada," said Phil Fontaine, national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, an aboriginal advocacy organization representing 630 communities. "It's made it possible for him to give back to his community in a very significant way."