In 2015, The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) released a list of Calls to Action
aimed at redressing the harms of the residential school system through improving and
reconciling relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities in Canada.
Within these Calls to Action, there are five Calls that directly address sport. Lacrosse, as a sport
currently dominated by white men, is an Indigenous physical practice that has been, and
continues to be, widely appropriated by settlers. This ongoing legacy of settler colonialism
positions lacrosse as a pressing site through which to investigate reconciliatory efforts. Further,
the current landscape of lacrosse as a white male dominated sport, coupled with the ongoing
cultural appropriation of lacrosse from Indigenous communities, creates an important
opportunity to investigate interlocking systems of settler colonization and heteropatriarchy
within sport. These areas are considered through the publishable papers of my thesis.
The questions that have guided my Master’s of Arts by publishable paper are two-fold:
how are national and provincial lacrosse organizations in Canada taking up the TRC’s sportrelated
Calls to Action, and in what ways are these efforts gendered? Chapter 2, the first of my
publishable papers, I argue that these Calls to Action need to be extended to lacrosse
organizations within Canada. In this chapter, I investigate how representatives from seven
lacrosse organizations within Canada conceptualized their organizations as attending (or not) to
the Calls to Action. In Chapter 3, in which I present the second of my publishable papers, I focus
on the gendered elements of the participants’ responses to how lacrosse organizations have taken
up the Calls to Action and have addressed Indigenous women’s involvement in lacrosse.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:uottawa.ca/oai:ruor.uottawa.ca:10393/44464 |
| Date | 05 January 2023 |
| Creators | Holmes, Avery |
| Contributors | Giles, Audrey, Hayhurst, Lyndsay |
| Publisher | Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa |
| Source Sets | Université d’Ottawa |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
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