PreviewsJanice Forsyth
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Beyond the Rink
Behind the Images of Residential School Hockey
Alexandra Giancarlo, Janice Forsyth, Braden Te Hiwi
In this fascinating book of oral history, the authors collaborate with three surviving members of the 1951 Sioux Lookout Black Hawks Thunder Bay district champions to share their stories and the complex legacy behind the promotional tour and professional photos taken and used at the time to demonstrate to the Canadian public the success of the Indian Residential School system.
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Decolonizing Sport
Janice Forsyth (Editor), Christine O’Bonsawin (Editor), Russell Field (Editor), Murray G. Phillips (Editor)
This book shows how sport both colonized, but is now decolonizing, as Indigenous Peoples are taking physical recreational activity back. Contributors demonstrate how colonizers used sport as part of the process of dispossession of land and culture, and how Indigenous Peoples used sport as liberation from colonialism in Turtle Island, the U.S., Australia, Aotearoa/New Zealand, and Kenya.
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Reclaiming Tom Longboat
Indigenous Self-Determination in Canadian Sport
Janice Forsyth
This book recounts the history of Indigenous sport in Canada through the lens of the prestigious Tom Longboat Awards. Forsyth critically assesses the state’s role in policing Indigenous bodies and identities through sport, recognizing sport as a tool for colonization in Canada, while also acknowledging its potential to become a tool for decolonization and self-determination.
