Witnessing Painful Pasts: Understanding Images of Sports at Canadian Indian Residential Schools
Abstract
Images are powerful tools for shaping perceptions of the past. In the context of sport at Canadian Indian residential schools, photographic images were consciously constructed and carefully selected and have been subsequently recirculated by contemporary media. Images of smiling, happy children at play at Canadian Indian residential schools have been used to lend credence to notions of sport as an unquestionable force for good without considering the context in which the images were created. In this paper, we explore how media, including online public repositories and newspapers, have taken up images of sport, specifically hockey, at Indian residential schools and how they evoke ideas about the nation and Indigenous–settler relations in Canada. We argue that photographs of residential school sports reinforce colonial narratives that lend ideological weight to settler colonial rule.
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These contemporary forms of bigotry ripple from the legacy of past U.S. and Canadian assimilation policies carried out in residential/boarding schools where Indigenous children upon arrival were stripped of all of their belongings and had their hair cut.
“These contemporary forms of bigotry ripple from the legacy of past U.S. and Canadian assimilation policies carried out in residential/boarding schools where Indigenous children upon arrival were stripped of all of their belongings and had their hair cut (McKee & Forsyth, 2019;Tardif, 2021).”
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- Authors
- McKee, T., & Forsyth, J.
- Affiliations
- Western University (CA)
- Corresponding author
- McKee, Taylor
- Venue
- Journal of Sport History
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Published
- 2019-07-01
- Volume
- 46
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 175-188
- ISSN
- 0094-1700 (ISSN-L)
- 2155-8450
- OpenAlex
- W2972244631
- Cited by
- 6
- References
- 23
- Citations by year
- 2023: 3 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 1
- FWCI
- 1.51
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Sport History (publishedVersion)
- Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Physical Education and Sports Studies
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Indigenous Cultures and History
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Canadian Identity and History
- Keywords
- Indian residential schools, hockey, Indigenous-settler relations, colonial narratives, settler colonialism, media representation, historical images, Canadian national identity, indigenous children
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