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Canoe Racing to Fishing Guides: Sport and Settler Colonialism in Mi’kma’ki
From: Decolonizing Sport
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This chapter focuses on the displacement of Indigenous populations by settler colonial societies from Mi’kma’ki, the homeland of the Mi’kmaq. It also reflects on the relationship between sport history and settler colonialism in the broad context of the environmental and demographic characteristics of settler colonialism in northeastern North America.
Contributors
John Reid
Janice Forsyth is a member of the Fisher River Cree First Nation and a professor in the Faculty of Education, School of Kinesiology, University of British Columbia. She is a recognized leader in Indigenous sport development in Canada. Her research has generated significant national and international attention among scholars and practitioners, and several of her studies are included in the reports of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. In 2017, she was elected to the College of the Royal Society of Canada for her contributions to research and advocacy.
