“We still need the game. As Indigenous people, it’s in our blood.”: A Conversation on Hockey, Residential School, and Decolonization
Abstract
On March 18th, 2019, settler scholar Sam McKegney and Anishinaabe scholar Mike Auksi conducted an interview with Eugene Arcand at Queen’s University’s Isabelle Bader Centre in Kingston, Ontario in the territories of the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe Peoples. Arcand had travelled to Kingston to act as a Keynote Speaker the following day at the “Roundtable on Racism in Hockey.” On Arcand’s insistence that the efforts, experiences, and ideas of roundtable participants be honoured in ways that promote tangible change, the roundtable’s organizers Courtney Szto, Bob Dawson, McKegney, and Auksi distilled the event’s findings into the Policy Paper for Anti-Racism in Canadian Hockey, which has since been downloaded over 7,500 times. The interview below is supplemented by a brief excerpt from a recorded conversation McKegney had with Arcand, his wife Lorna, and Craig McCallum at the Arcands’ home on Whitecap Reserve in Saskatchewan in the Spring of 2019.
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The presence of Indigenous families in hockey should be a welcome expectation, but Indigenous athletes have largely been treated as unwanted interlopers in settler-colonial societies.
“Therefore, the presence of Indigenous families in the sport should be a welcome expectation, but like many aspects of settler-colonial societies Indigenous athletes have largely been treated as unwanted interlopers (Arcand et al., 2021;McLeod & McKegney, 2021;Norman et al., 2022).”
From Indigenizing Sport Research: Analyzing Protective Factors of Exercising Sovereignty in North America (2023) · cites this paper as Arcand et al., 2021
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McLeod, D., McKegney, S., Zanussi, D., & Keepness, S. (2023) · Sociology of Sport Journal · doi:10.1123/ssj.2022-0085 · Cited by 4 · see citing works
Self-citationNorman, M., Clifford, A. G., & Henry, R. (2023) · Sociology of Sport Journal · doi:10.1123/ssj.2022-0086 · Cited by 4 · see citing works
Indigenizing Sport Research: Analyzing Protective Factors of Exercising Sovereignty in North America
Ali-Joseph, A., Leonard, K., & Welch, N. (2023) · Sociology of Sport Journal · doi:10.1123/ssj.2023-0006 · Cited by 3 · see citing works
“Therefore, the presence of Indigenous families in the sport should be a welcome expectation, but like many aspects of settler-colonial societies Indigenous athletes have largely been treated as unwanted interlopers (Arcand et al., 2021; McLeod & McKegney, 2021; Norman et al., 2022).”
BackgroundFrom locker rooms to change rooms: The Beardy’s Blackhawks and transformative hockey spaces
Koch, J., Henry, R., & McKegney, S. (2026) · International Review for the Sociology of Sport · doi:10.1177/10126902261453617
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- Authors
- Arcand (Aski Kananumohwatah), E., McKegney, S., & Auksi, M. M.
- Venue
- Canadian Ethnic Studies
- Publisher
- Project MUSE
- Published
- 2021
- Volume
- 53
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 15-27
- ISSN
- 0008-3496 (ISSN-L)
- 1913-8253
- OpenAlex
- W4205871138
- Cited by
- 4
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2023: 3
- FWCI
- 1.04
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Canadian ethnic studies (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Physical Education and Sports Studies
- Social Sciences › Health › Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Indigenous Cultures and History
- Keywords
- residential schools, decolonization, anti-racism policy, indigenous identity, Anishinaabe, Iroquois, settler colonialism
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