Decolonizing Sport

Decolonizing SportDecolonizing Sport tells the stories of sport colonizing Indigenous Peoples and of Indigenous Peoples using sport to decolonize. Spanning several lands Turtle Island, the US, Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand and Kenya the authors demonstrate the two sharp edges of sport in the history of colonialism. Colonizers used sport, their own and Indigenous recreational activities they appropriated, as part of the process of dispossession of land and culture.

I was propelled through an entire night of charmed reading

“We are still here

North Carolina's Lumbee Indians are the largest Native American tribe east of the Mississippi River

Indigenous peoples fought relentlessly against the policy

traipses through the jungles of Brazil

and "go to sleep now"

Also covered are plants used as charms

A 50th anniversary revised edition of the beloved classic

She's always felt there was something more out there

persuaded the federal government that training Native children to accept the white man’s ways and values would be more efficient than fighting deadly battles

the narrative proceeds through such periods and events as early Lakȟóta-European trading

Isaac Asimov and Ray Bradbury