The Creator’s Game: Lacrosse, Identity, and Indigenous Nationhood

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Lacrosse has been a central part of Indigenous cultures for centuries, but once non-Indigenous players entered the sport, it become a website of appropriation – then reclamation – of Indigenous identities. The Writer’s Game makes a speciality of the history of lacrosse in Indigenous communities from the 1860s to the 1990s, exploring Indigenous-non-Indigenous relations and Indigenous identity formation. Whilst the game used to be being appropriated within the process of constructing a new identity for the nation-state of Canada, it used to be also being utilized by Indigenous peoples to withstand residential school experiences, initiate pan-Indigenous political mobilization, and articulate Indigenous sovereignty. This engaging and innovative book provides a unique view of Indigenous self-determination and nationhood within the face of settler-colonialism.

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