Webinar: Land, rights, and reciprocity: Indigenous sport is not an EDI issue – Nov 25

Public dialogues about Indigenous sport in Canada are typically inserted into equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) categories. While certainly there are overlapping areas of concern, such as increasing the number of Indigenous athletes and coaches in competitive sport and addressing racism, framing Indigenous sport as an EDI issue poses fundamental challenges for Indigenous people.

Not only does it reinforce settler colonial beliefs, practices, and structures about sport, it marginalizes the critical ways Indigeneous people are using sport for Indigenous nation-building and cultural revitalization. In this presentation, I make a distinction between Indigenous vs. settler sport to explain why Indigenous sport must be understood apart from EDI frameworks and the pitfalls, especially for researchers, of not making this distinction.