Past, Present, and Future Research

Adams, C., Field, R., & Vigneault. “Hockey, identity, and nationhood.” In Sport and Recreation in Canadian History. C. Adams (Ed) (2021). 173-202. 

Arcand, E., S. McKegney, & M. Auksi. “‘We still need the game. As Aboriginal people, it’s in our blood.’ A Conversation on Hockey, Residential School, and Decolonization.” Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal 53:3 (2021). 15-27.

Forsyth, J. “Aboriginal sport in the city: Implications for participation, health, and policy in Canada”. Aboriginal Policy Studies 3:1-2 (2014). 214-222. 

Forsyth, J. “Bodies of meaning: Sports and games at Canadian residential schools.” Aboriginal Peoples and Sport in Canada: Historical Foundations and Contemporary Issues, J. Forsyth & A. Giles (Eds.) UBC Press, 2013. 15-34.

Forsyth, J. “The illusion of inclusion: Agenda 21 and the commodification of Indigenous culture in Olympic Games.” PUBLIC: Arts | Culture | Ideas 53 (2016). 22-34. 

Forsyth, J. Reclaiming Tom Longboat: Indigenous Self-Determination in Canadian Sport. U of Regina P, 2020.

Forsyth, J., Giles, A. & Lodge, V. “Negotiating difference: How Aboriginal athletes in the Maritimes broker their involvement in Canadian sport.” International Journal of Sport History, 33:16 (2016).

Forsyth, J. & Giles, A. Eds. Aboriginal Peoples and Sport in Canada: Historical Foundations and Contemporary Issues. UBC Press, 2013. 

Forsyth, J. & Giles, A., & Lodge-Gagne, V. “Pride and prejudice: How Aboriginal women have experienced Canadian sport.” In G. Demers, L. Greaves, S. Kirby & M. Lay (Eds.), Playing it Forward: 50 Years of Women and Sport in Canada. Feminist History Society, 2013. 210-18.

Forsyth, J. & Heine, M. “‘The only good thing that happened at school’: Colonizing narratives of sport in the Indian School Bulletin.” British Journal of Canadian Studies 30:2 (2017). 205-26. 

Forsyth, J, McKee, T, & Benson, A. “Data, Discourse, and Decolonization at the 2019 National Aboriginal Hockey Championships.” Canadian Ethnic Studies. 53:3 (Winter 2021). 121-40. 

Forsyth, J, C. O’Bonsawin, & R. Field (Eds). Decolonizing Sport. Fernwood, 2023. 

Forsyth, J. & Paraschak, V. “The double helix: Aboriginal people and sport policy in Canada.” Sport Policy in Canada. L. Thibault & J. Harvey (Eds.) U of Ottawa P, 2013. 267-93.

Giancarlo, A., Forsyth, J., Te Hiwi, B., & McKee, T. “Methodology and Indigenous memory: Using photographs to anchor critical reflections on Indian residential school experiences.” Visual Studies 36:4-5 (2021). 406-20. 

Habkirk, E. & Forsyth, J. “Truth, reconciliation, and the politics of the body in Indian residential school history.” History Matters. (2016). 

Koch, J., Scherer, J., & Holt, N. “Slap shot! Sport, masculinities, and homelessness in the downtown core of a divided western Canadian inner city.” Journal of Sport and Social Issues 42:4 (2018). 270–294. 

Koch, J., Scherer, J., & Kafara, R. “Structural inequality, homelessness, and moral worth: Salvaging the self through sport?” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 49:6 (2020). 806–831. 

Kolopenuk, J. “Miskâsowin: Indigenous Science, Technology, and Society.” Genealogy 4:1 (2020). 21.

Laurendeau, J. (2024, March 18). “Do[ing] hockey different”: Belonging and world-building through the Indigenous Girls Hockey Program and jamborees. The Society Pages. https://thesocietypages.org/engagingsports/2024/03/18/doing-hockey-different-belonging-and-world-building-through-the-indigenous-girls-hockey-program-and-jamborees/ 

McKegney, S. “The Aboriginal Art of Wakeswimming or the Media Mythologization of Jonathan Cheechoo.” Now is the Winter: Thinking About Hockey. R. Harrison & J. Dopp (Eds). Wolsak & Wynn (2009). 113-22.

McKegney, S. Magic Weapons: Aboriginal Authors Remaking Community after Residential School. U of Manitoba P, 2007.

McKegney, S. Masculindians: Conversations about Indigenous Manhood. U of Manitoba P, 2014.

McKegney, S. Carrying the Burden of Peace: Reimagining Indigenous Masculinities through Story. U of Regina P, 2021.

McKegney, S., Henry, R., Koch, J., and Rathwell, M. “Manufacturing Compliance with Anti-Indigenous Racism in Canadian Hockey: The Case of Beardy’s Blackhawks.” Canadian Ethnic Studies 53:3 (2021). 29-50.

McKegney, S., & Phillips, T. Decolonizing the hockey novel: Ambivalence and apotheosis in Richard Wagamese’s Indian Horse. Hockey: Challenging Canada’s Game, Ellison J. & Anderson J. (Eds.). U of Ottawa P, 2018. 97-110.

McKee, T & Forsyth, J. “Witnessing Painful Pasts: Understanding Images of Sports at Canadian Indian Residential Schools.” Journal of Sport History. 46:2. (Summer 2019). 175-88. 

McLeod, D. & S. McKegney. “‘Some people don’t unlearn those things.’ A Conversation on Hockey, Racism, and Belonging.” Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal 53:3 (2020). 87-102.

McLeod, D., McKegney, S. Zanussi, S., and Keepness, S. “‘who am I… a hockey player’: Indigenous Generosity and the Transformative Power of Education in Hockey Spaces,” Sociology of Sport Journal (accepted 2023).

Norman, M., Clifford, A., and Henry, R. “Sport for Development and Decolonization in a Settler Colonial State: Physical Culture in the Lives of Indigenous Peoples Incarcerated in Canadian Prisons.” Sociology of Sport Journal. (Accepted 2022).

O’Bonsawin, C. “‘No Olympics on stolen land’: Contesting Olympic narratives and asserting Indigenous rights within the discourse of the 2010 Vancouver Games.” Sport in Society. 13:1 (2010). 142-56. 

O’Bonsawin, C. “Ready to step up and hold the front line”: Transitioning from Sport History to Indigenous Studies, and Back Again.” International Journal of the History of Sport 34:5-6 (2017). 420-26.

O’Bonsawin, C. “Wearing my heart on my sleeve: Transgressing the Traditional Boundaries of Sport History.” Sport History Review 53:2 (2022). 157-160. 

Paraschak, V. “‘Reasonable Amusements:’ Connecting the strands of physical culture in Native lives.” Sport History Review 28:1 (1998). 121-31. 

Paraschak, V. “An examination of sport for Aboriginal females on the Six Nations Reserve, 1968-1980.” Native Athletes in Sport and Society. R. King (Ed.) U of Nebraska P, 2005. 170-88.

Paraschak, V. & Forsyth, J. “Aboriginal women ‘working’ at play: Canadian insights.” Ethnologies 32:1 (2010) 157-173.

Paraschak, V. & Forsyth, J. “Invisible but not absent: Aboriginal women, knowledge production and the restructuring of Canadian sport.” In, Sport, ‘Race’ and Ethnicity: Narratives of Diversity and Difference, D. Adair & S. Pope (Eds.) U West Virginia P, 2011. 219-34. 

Paraschak, V., Golob, M., Forsyth, J., & Giles, A.“Physical culture, sport, ethnicity, and race in Canada.” Sport and Physical Culture in Canadian Society, J. Scherer & B. Wilson (Eds.). Pearson, 2019. 95-120.  

Rathwell, M., Henry, R., and McKegney, S. “Opportunities Denied: The divergent resonance of opportunity for Indigenous and non-Indigenous hockey players with the now-disbanded Beardy’s Blackhawks.” Sociology of Sport Journal 38:4, 2021. 

Ryan, J., and Keepness, S. “Libratory Vulnerability: Reimagining Indigenous Hockey Masculinities in Jordin Tootoo’s All the Way and Theo Fleury’s Playing with Fire.” American Indian Quarterly (Accepted 2023)

Schinke, R. J., Peltier, D., Yungblut, H. E. (2013). Canadian elite aboriginal athletes, their challenges, and the adaptation process. Aboriginal Peoples and Sport in Canada: Historical Foundations and Contemporary Issues, J. Forsyth, & A. Giles (Eds.). UBC Press, 2013. 124-44.

Sinclair, N. “Players build bridges while the NHL burns them.” Winnipeg Free Press, 2023-12-02.

Szto, C. Changing on the fly: Hockey through the voices of South Asian Canadians. Rutgers UP, 2020.

Szto, C., McKegney, S., Auksi, M., & Dawson, B. Policy paper for anti-racism in hockey. 2020.

Tehiwi, B. & Forsyth, J. “‘A rink at this school is almost as essential as a classroom’: Hockey and discipline at Pelican Lake Indian Residential School, 1945-1951.” Canadian Journal of History, 52:1 (2017). 80-108. 

Tsosie, K, Yracheta, J, Kolopenuk, J, & Geary, J. “We Have ‘Gifted’ Enough: Indigenous Genomic Data Sovereignty in Precision Medicine.” American Journal of Bioethics 21:4 (2021). 72-75.

Tuck, E. & K. Yang. “Decolonization is not a metaphor.” Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society 1.1 (2012). 1-40. 

Van Styvendale, N, McDougall, J, Henry, R, & Innes, R. Arts of Indigenous Health and Well-Being. U of Manitoba P, 2021.

Allain, K. A. “Hegemony contests: Challenging the notion of a singular Canadian hockey nationalism.” American Review of Canadian Studies, 49:4 (2019). 511–29. 

Archibald, J. Indigenous Storywork: Educating the heart, mind, body, and spirit. UBCP, 2008.

Bean, C. N., Arellano, A., & Forneris, T. “Engaging Inuit youth in hockey: A pathway to positive youth development.” Journal of Exercise, Movement, and Sport (SCAPPS Refereed Abstracts Repository), 45(1), 71–71.

Bennett, P. W. “Re-imagining the creation: Popular mythology, the Mi’kmaq, and the origins of Canadian hockey.” In J. Ellison & J. Anderson (Eds.), Hockey: Challenging Canada’s Game. University of Ottawa Press, 2018. 45-60.

Blodgett, A. T., Schinke, R. J., Fisher, L. A., Wassengeso George, C., Peltier, D., Ritchie, S., & Pickard, P. “From practice to praxis: Community-based strategies for Aboriginal youth sport.” Journal of Sport and Social Issues 32:4 (2008). 393–414. 

Bloom, John. To Show What an Indian Can Do: Sports at Native American Boarding Schools. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000. 

Burstyn, Varda. The Rites of Men: Manhood, Politics, and the Culture of Sport. Toronto:
University of Toronto Press, 1999.

Cairnie, J. “Truth and reconciliation in postcolonial hockey masculinities.” Canadian Literature, 237 (2019). 103-119, 183. 

Canadian Heritage. Sport Canada’s Policy on Aboriginal Peoples’ Participation in Sport. Ottawa: Minister of Public Works and Government Services Canada. 2005.

Collings, P., & Condon, R. G. “Blood on the ice: Status, self-esteem, and ritual injury among Inuit hockey players.” Human Organization 55 (1996). 253–262. 

Dopp, Jamie, and Richard Harrison eds. Now Is the Winter: Thinking About Hockey. Hamilton: Wolsak and Wynn, 2009. 

Downey, A. The Creator’s Game: Lacrosse, Identity, and Indigenous Nationhood. UBCP, 2018.

Dryden, Ken, and Roy MacGregor. Home Game: Hockey and Life in Canada. Toronto:
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Ferguson, L., Epp, G. B., Wuttunee, K., Dunn, M., McHugh, T.-L., & Humbert, M. L. (2019). ‘It’s more than just performing well in your sport. it’s also about being healthy physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually’: Indigenous women athletes’ meanings and experiences of flourishing in sport.” Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health 11:1 (2019). 1–19. 

Fleury, T., & Day, K. M. Playing with fire: The highest highs and lowest lows of Theo Fleury. Harper Collins Canada, 2010.

Gruneau, Richard, and David Whitson eds. Hockey Night in Canada: Sport, Identities, and Cultural Politics. Toronto: Garamond Press, 1993.

Hall, M.A. The Girl and the Game: A History of Women’s Sport in Canada. Peterborough, ON: Broadview, 2002.

Hokowhitu, B. “Tackling Maori Masculinity: A Colonial Genealogy of Savagery and Sport.” The Contemporary Pacific 16, 2 (Fall 2004): 259–84.

Hokowhitu, B. “Maori Rugby and Subversion: Creativity, Domestication, Oppression and Decolonization.” International Journal of the History of Sport 26, 16 (2009): 2314–34.

Hokowhitu, B. & J. Scherer, “The Māori All Blacks and the Decentering of the White Subject: Hyperrace, Sport, and the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism,” Sociology of Sport Journal 25 (2008): 243–62.

Holman, A. C. Canada’s game: Hockey and identity. McGill-Queen’s UP, 2009.

Holman, A. C. “Telling stories about Indigeneity and Canadian sport: The spectacular Cree and Ojibway Indian Hockey Barnstorming Tour of North America, 1928.” Sport History Review 43:2 (2012). 178–205. 

Howell, Colin. Blood, Sweat, and Cheers: Sport and the Making of Modern Canada. Toronto:
University of Toronto Press, 2001. 

Hunt, C., Michalak, A., Lefkimmiatis, C., Johnston, E., Macumber, L., Jocko, T., & Ouchterlony, D. “Exploring concussion awareness in hockey with a First Nations community in Canada.” Public Health Nursing 35:3 (2018). 202–210. 

Jackson, S. & B. Hokowhitu. “Sport, Tribes, and Technology: The New Zealand All Blacks Haka and the Politics of Identity.” Journal of Sport and Social Issues 25:2 (2002). 125–39. 

Johnson, S. R., Crosschild, T., Poudrier, J., Foulds, H. J. A., McHugh, T.-L., Humbert, L., & Ferguson, L. J. “It’s a big adjustment coming from the reserve to living in a totally different society”: Exploring the well-being of First Nations athletes playing sports in an urban mainstream context. Psychology of Sport and Exercise 47 (2020). 1–10. 

Johnston, B. Indian school days. U of Oklahoma P, 1989.

King, R., ed. Native Athletes in Sport and Society: A Reader. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 2005.

King, R, and C. F. Springwood, eds. Team Spirits: The Native American Mascots Controversy. Lincoln” U of Nebraska Press. 2001. 

Krebs, A. “Hockey and the reproduction of colonialism in Canada.” Race and Sport in Canada: Intersecting Inequalities, J. Joseph, S. Darnell, & Y. Nakamura (Eds.), Canadian Scholars Press, 2012. 81–105.

Leach, R. The Riverton Rifle: My story—straight shooting on hockey and on life. Greystone Books Ltd., 2015.

McKinley, Michael. Putting a Roof On Winter: Hockey’s Rise from Sport to Spectacle.
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Oxendine, J. B. American Indian Sports Heritage. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1995.

Poucher, Z., Tamminen, K., & Cairney, J. “Crime prevention or positive youth development? An evaluation of the Nunavik youth hockey development program.” Journal of Exercise, Movement, and Sport 49:1 (2017). 118.

Robinson, L. She Shoots, She Scores: Canadian Perspectives on Women in Sport. Toronto: Thompson Educational, 1997.

Robidoux, M. A. “Imagining a Canadian identity through sport: An historical interpretation of lacrosse and hockey.” Hockey: Challenging Canada’s Game, J. Ellison & J. Anderson (Eds.). U of Ottawa P, 2018. 61-76.

Robidoux, M. A. Historical interpretations of First Nation masculinity and its influence on Canada’s sport heritage. Native American and Sport in North America: Other People’s Games, C. R. King (Ed.). Routledge, 2008. 130-47.

Robidoux, M. A. Stickhandling Through the Margins: First Nations Hockey in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012. 

Sasakamoose, F. Call Me Indian: From the trauma of residential school to becoming the NHL’s first treaty Indigenous player. Penguin Canada, 2021.

Simpson, L. As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance. U Minnesota P, 2021.

Smith, L. Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples. U of Otago P, 1999.

Spindel, C. Dancing at Halftime: Sports and the Controversy over American Indian Mascots. New York: New York University Press. 2002.

Tootoo, J. All the way: My life on ice. Penguin Canada.

Valentine, J. “New racism and old stereotypes in the National Hockey League: The “stacking” of Aboriginal players into the role of enforcer.” Race and Sport in Canada: Intersecting Inequalities, S. Darnell, J. Joseph, & Y. Nakamura (Eds.). Canadian Scholars’ Press, 2012. 107-35.

Vennum, T. American Indian Lacrosse: Little Brother of War. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2008. 

Vizenor, G. Manifest Manners: Narratives on Postindian Survivance. U of Nebraska P, 1999.

Whitson, D., & Gruneau, R. (Eds.). Artificial ice: Hockey, culture, and commerce. U of Toronto P. 2012.

Wilson, S. Research is Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods. Fernwood, 2008.