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- Title
"A Rink at this School is Almost as Essential as a Classroom": Hockey and Discipline at Pelican Lake Indian Residential School, 1945-1951.
- Authors
TE HIWI, BRADEN; FORSYTH, JANICE
- Abstract
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.
- Subjects
CANADA; ONTARIO; OFF-reservation boarding schools; HOCKEY; SCHOOL discipline; PHYSICAL education; FIRST Nations of Canada; NATIVE American hockey players; SCHOOL sports; TWENTIETH century; SECONDARY education; HISTORY
- Publication
Canadian Journal of History, 2017, Vol 52, Issue 1, p80
- ISSN
0008-4107
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3138/cjh.ach.52.1.04