Kinesiology 3378F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Manitouwadge, Kapuskasing, Homosociality

• School: Western University
• Department: Kinesiology
• Course: Kinesiology 3378F/G
• Professor: Taylor Kraayenbrink

Document Summary

How residential school survivors continue to recover now. Not true because indigenous kids were already playing hockey. Hockey in residential schools seen as a way of erasing indigenous-ness and assimilate. (cid:862)sport (cid:272)o(cid:374)sidered a (cid:449)a(cid:455) to (cid:373)ai(cid:374)tai(cid:374) (cid:373)oral a(cid:374)d i(cid:373)perial order a(cid:374)d (cid:272)hara(cid:272)ter(cid:863) Hockey in indigenous schools helped maintain a sense of pride, identity and survival. P (cid:1007): (cid:894)last paragraph(cid:895) (cid:862)our (cid:373)edi(cid:272)i(cid:374)e people (cid:449)ould (cid:272)all (cid:373)e a seer(cid:863) had a special gift at hockey. P (cid:1011): (cid:862)the (cid:272)ha(cid:374)ge that (cid:272)o(cid:373)es our (cid:449)a(cid:455) that is the spirit tea(cid:272)hi(cid:374)g of the horse(cid:863) Horse = comes from settler culture but indigenous get horse and adapt it to culture. Use it, take good care of it, and it becomes part of their identity. Horse = in some way a symbol of what hockey is in this novel to indigenous people. Trying to reclaim the connection sport gave him to indigenous background * key theme. On a quest to (re)gain a positive sense of indigenous masculinity.