'A Rink at this School is Almost as Essential as a Classroom': Hockey and Discipline at Pelican Lake Indian Residential School, 1945–1951
| Autor: | Janice Forsyth, Braden Te Hiwi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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| Zdroj: | Canadian Journal of History. 52:80-108 |
| ISSN: | 2292-8502 0008-4107 |
| DOI: | 10.3138/cjh.ach.52.1.04 |
| Popis: | While there is now a considerable body of literature about the Canadian Indian residential school system, few researchers have used sport as the primary lens through which to understand the objectives and legacies of that system. This article examines the disciplinary effects of hockey at Pelican Lake Indian Residential School from 1945 to 1951. Local level school administrators, such as the principals, the Indian Agent, and Church representatives valued hockey because they believed it provided a measure of discipline in, and therefore control over, the students. The boys used the school’s hockey team, the Sioux Black Hawks, to provide positive experiences and a level of achievement that had been absent at the school. Of importance beyond the school, government officials and Church administrators leveraged the team’s success and glowing media coverage as a useful public relations tool to promote the “success” of residential schooling to the Canadian public. Resume analytique: Il existe une litterature abondante au sujet des pensionnats autochtones au Canada. Cependant, peu de chercheurs ont analyse les objectifs et l’heritage de ce systeme a travers le prisme du sport. Cet article examine les effets disciplinaires du hockey au pensionnat de Pelican Lake entre 1945 et 1951. Les administrateurs scolaires locaux, tels que les directeurs d’ecole, l’agent des Indiens, et les representants des Eglises, valorisaient le hockey. Ils jugeaient que le sport promouvait l’autodiscipline et donc un degre de controle sur les etudiants. Pour les garcons, jouer sur l’equipe de hockey, le “Sioux Black Hawks,” etait une experience positive et leur donnait un sentiment de reussite qu’ils manquaient a l’ecole. Audela de l’ecole, les fonctionnaires et les administrateurs des Eglises promouvaient une image de reussite des pensionnats au public canadien en soulignant les reussites de l’equipe de hockey et en utilisant la couverture mediatique positive comme outil de relations publiques. |
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