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Janice Forsyth, Reclaiming Tom Long Boat: Indigenous Self-Determination In Canadian Sport. With A Foreword By Willie Littlechild., Gwooyim Gyat Hawaaw
Janice Forsyth, Reclaiming Tom Long Boat: Indigenous Self-Determination In Canadian Sport. With A Foreword By Willie Littlechild., Gwooyim Gyat Hawaaw
Dalhousie Law Journal
Established in 1951, the Tom Longboat Awards seek to “recognize Aboriginal athletes for their outstanding contributions to sport in Canada.” In her meticulous work of cultural history, the Cree kinesiologist Janice Forsyth places this official discourse in settler-colonial context. “The history of sport and physical activity in Canada,” she clarifies for sports scholars and administrators, “is not a history of empowerment or inclusion, or even of opportunity, accommodation, or amalgamation. Rather, it is a history of containment, control, and elimination.” Forsyth’s incisive analysis consequently goes well beyond the fields of sociology and sport history. On my reading, her work makes …
A Review Of Harold Johnson, Peace And Good Order: The Case For Indigenous Justice In Canada, Haneen Al-Noman
A Review Of Harold Johnson, Peace And Good Order: The Case For Indigenous Justice In Canada, Haneen Al-Noman
Dalhousie Law Journal
Haneen Al Noman: A Review of Harold Johnson, Peace and Good Order: The Case for Indigenous Justice in Canada (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2019).