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“Who Am I . . . a Hockey Player”: Indigenous Generosity and the Transformative Power of Education in Hockey Spaces
Through engagement with the voices of elite Indigenous hockey players, the present paper examines the potential for ice hockey1 to be activated as a vehicle for decolonial learning and an incubator for anti-racism and social responsibility among settlers on Turtle Island.2 The paper builds from arguments and experiences shared by five interviewees from different Indigenous nations with diverse hockey histories at disparate stages of their careers.
Carrying the Burden of Peace: Reimagining Masculinities Through Story
By Sam McKegney University of Arizona Press (2021) 263 pages “Can a critical examination of Indigenous masculinities be an honor song—one that celebrates, rather than pathologizes; one that seeks diversity and strength; one that overturns heteropatriarchy without centering settler colonialism? Can a critical examination of Indigenous masculinities even be creative, inclusive, erotic? Sam McKegney answers affirmatively.
Carrying the Burden of Peace: Reimagining Indigenous Masculinities Through Story
By Sam McKegney January 11, 2022 Review By Josh Cerretti Sam McKegney’s Carrying the Burden of Peace seeks to bridge the gap in between the “insistence that neither individual Indigenous men nor concepts of Indigenous masculinity are irredeemable” and the recognition that some forms of masculinity “will stand forever in the way of Indigenous resurgence and decolonization” (xxvii).
Indigenous hockey team eliminated from Sask. league
On Nov. 12, 2019, the Saskatchewan Hockey Association (SHA) made public its decision to eliminate the Beardy’s Blackhawks Midget AAA hockey program from Beardy’s & Okemasis Cree Nation, one of the largest First Nations in Saskatchewan. It was the only Midget AAA franchise in Canada run by and on a First Nations reserve. Both Beardy’s Blackhawks, which includes both Indigenous and non-Indigenous players, and the Notre Dame Argos will play their final games this season.
Home game: Rethinking Canada through Indigenous hockey
“Damn, we got it. We won one in their barn!” To Cree hockey player Eugene Arcand, these words made little sense. You see, in the 11 years he had skated for two Saskatchewan Indian residential schools — as sweater number 14, residential school number 781 — no settler teams had ever visited the dilapitated outdoor rinks at St. Michael’s residential school in Duck Lake or the Qu'Appelle school in Lebret.
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