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Shingwauk's Vision

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Titles Shingwauk's Vision: A History of Native Residential Schools
Name J.R. Miller
Name University of Toronto Press
Type of Resource text
Abstract Pages 208-209; 270-277 from this book discuss sport and recreation at residential schools in Canada. The first section details how it was used to maintain white settler superiority by featuring only British/European forms of play ("quintessentially British institutions such as brass bands" (pg. 208), and cricket), while explicitly excluding traditionally Indigenous sports like lacrosse. The second section goes into detail about the types of gendered activities, for example girls would make dolls from scrap material or play board games while "Boys could play on the fire escape at Fort Frances or 'on the mountain' at Spanish if more elaborate entertainments were unavailable." (pg. 270) The cost of sporting equipment is discussed starting with makeshift products from home made scrap materials, like the pool table at "the Garnier School for boys in the late 1950s" to the "large school at Kamloops run by the Sisters of Saint Ann and the Oblates, which had an impressive outdoor swimming pool." (pg. 271) The sport of hockey is also brought up because the equipment was so expensive, but the sport so popular among young boys at the schools. Basketball is also brought up because it was less expensive, as well as track, both of which required mostly just uniforms and a ball. Funding issues were to follow this, with one Anglican lay supervisor having to "break the regulations and indulge in a form of bureaucratic fraud to secure hockey equipment for the boys and figure skates for the girls" (pg. 274). It is also made clear that Indian Affairs were often the ones who would put up barriers for their administrators to "provide their school's children with amenities" (pg. 275). The Lebret school is discussed on page 276 as well as Verne Bellegarde who was a well-known Indigenous hockey player. Other notable people mentioned include: Joe Keeper, Art Obey, Jim Thorpe, and Tom Longboat. Page 495 includes a note about an interview held with Verne Bellegarde in 1992 by Miller.
Genre Sports
Note Excerpts provided by: Miller, J.R.. Shingwauk's Vision: A History of Native Residential Schools. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000. Accessed September 18, 2019. ProQuest Ebook Central.
Subject Local Name --Sport--Colonialism--Culture--Indigenous--Residential School--Church--Religion--Games--Children--Youth--History----Canada--Lebret--Saskatchewan----2000-2010--1850-1995
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