Space, Environment, and Appropriation: Sport and Settler Colonialism in Mi’kma’ki
Abstract The displacement of Indigenous populations by settler societies forming within the British Empire was a global development during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, one in which settler sport took a significant role. Settler colonialism must be understood as a spatial and environmenta...
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crunivillinoispr:10.5406/jsporthistory.46.2.0242 2024-06-23T07:54:39+00:00 Space, Environment, and Appropriation: Sport and Settler Colonialism in Mi’kma’ki Reid, John 2019 http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/jsporthistory.46.2.0242 https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jsh/article-pdf/46/2/242/1927147/jsporthistory.46.2.0242.pdf en eng University of Illinois Press Journal of Sport History volume 46, issue 2, page 242-254 ISSN 0094-1700 2155-8450 journal-article 2019 crunivillinoispr https://doi.org/10.5406/jsporthistory.46.2.0242 2024-06-13T04:19:16Z Abstract The displacement of Indigenous populations by settler societies forming within the British Empire was a global development during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, one in which settler sport took a significant role. Settler colonialism must be understood as a spatial and environmental phenomenon as well as a social and political one. This essay focuses on one geographical area: Mi’kma’ki, the homeland of the Mi’kmaq, corresponding to a substantial proportion of what is known in non-Indigenous terms as Canada’s Maritime region. It reflects on the direct and indirect appropriation of unceded Indigenous space for sporting purposes, along with the implications for Indigenous sport and the nature of Indigenous response to settler encroachment. Sport as an important element of social and cultural history has strong explanatory power in showing how settler colonialism and Indigenous persistence became entangled. Article in Journal/Newspaper Mi’kmaq UI Press - University of Illinois Press Journal of Sport History 46 2 242 254 |
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Abstract The displacement of Indigenous populations by settler societies forming within the British Empire was a global development during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, one in which settler sport took a significant role. Settler colonialism must be understood as a spatial and environmental phenomenon as well as a social and political one. This essay focuses on one geographical area: Mi’kma’ki, the homeland of the Mi’kmaq, corresponding to a substantial proportion of what is known in non-Indigenous terms as Canada’s Maritime region. It reflects on the direct and indirect appropriation of unceded Indigenous space for sporting purposes, along with the implications for Indigenous sport and the nature of Indigenous response to settler encroachment. Sport as an important element of social and cultural history has strong explanatory power in showing how settler colonialism and Indigenous persistence became entangled. |
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Space, Environment, and Appropriation: Sport and Settler Colonialism in Mi’kma’ki |
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Space, Environment, and Appropriation: Sport and Settler Colonialism in Mi’kma’ki |
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Space, Environment, and Appropriation: Sport and Settler Colonialism in Mi’kma’ki |
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Space, Environment, and Appropriation: Sport and Settler Colonialism in Mi’kma’ki |
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Space, Environment, and Appropriation: Sport and Settler Colonialism in Mi’kma’ki |
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space, environment, and appropriation: sport and settler colonialism in mi’kma’ki |
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University of Illinois Press |
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http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/jsporthistory.46.2.0242 https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jsh/article-pdf/46/2/242/1927147/jsporthistory.46.2.0242.pdf |
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