#87: Reconciliation, Sport History, and Indigenous Peoples in Canada

• Published in: Journal of Sport History
• Main Author: Paraschak, Victoria
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: University of Illinois Press 2019
• Subjects: First Nations; inuit
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/jsporthistory.46.2.0208; https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jsh/article-pdf/46/2/208/1927151/jsporthistory.46.2.0208.pdf

Abstract A strengths-and-hope perspective was used to explicate the process underpinning, as well as the benefits and challenges arising from the intertwining of sport history and public history in a Canadian sesquicentennial public history project. The project goal was to contribute toward the Truth and Reconciliation Final Report Call to Action #87 by ensuring that public education, in the form of Wikipedia entries on elite Indigenous athletes in Canada, would be available in an easily accessed manner and that there would be 150+ entries by the end of 2017. The pathway taken to meet that goal included a combination of personal efforts and class assignments to edit and/or create entries, along with the hosting of an editathon on elite Indigenous athletes, resulting in the 176 entries that currently exist as part of three categories: First Nations sportspeople (142 entries), Mètis sportspeople (thirty-one entries), and Canadian Inuit sportspeople (three entries).