The typical rink in the native league is small frozen ponds or yard rinks. Lights strung around the rinks gave the rink a warm glow.The rink was a community place not just for hokey:
The moon hung in the sky like the face of a drum. As I watched, it became the shining face of a rink, where Indian boys in cast-off skates laughed in the thrill of the game, the smallest among them zooming in and out on outsized skates. I offered tobacco to the lake where everything started and everything ended, to the cliff that had made this the place of my people, and I offered my thanks aloud in an Ojibway prayer. pg 119