Janice Forsyth
Biographic Data
| ID | 168213 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Janice Forsyth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Janice |
| FAMILY NAME | Forsyth |
| SIGNATURE | FORSYTH J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5956-1393 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Indigenous Visual History: Remembering “Us” in Indian Residential School Hockey Photographs
Photography was a potent settler colonial technology that was employed — and contested — in the residential school system. In one photographic campaign, the Canadian government marshalled images of Indigenous children on a once-in-a-lifetime hockey excursion to publicly convey it was successfully assimilating them into Euro-Canadian society. The 1951 Sioux Lookout Black Hawks, a residential school hockey team from the Pelican Lake Indian Resident…
Methodology and Indigenous memory: Using photographs to anchor critical reflections on Indian residential school experiences
In this paper, we discuss the theoretical foundations, methodology, and method for a now-underway historical Indigenous sport photo elicitation project. In our photo elicitation sessions with former members of the Sioux Lookout Black Hawks, an Indian residential school (boarding school) hockey team that famously toured Ontario, Canada in 1951, we use photo elicitation to spark memories and provide a sense of immediacy for participants, most of wh…
Data, Development Discourse, and Decolonization: Developing an Indigenous Evaluation Model for Indigenous Youth Hockey in Canada
Quantitative methodologies play a critical, though often unacknowledged, role in establishing and maintaining unequal power relations in Canada. This power imbalance is readily apparent in Indigenous sport-for-development initiatives, which are permeated by deficit perspectives that produce and accentuate understandings about Indigenous dysfunction. As a result, these initiatives, no matter how positively framed or how much progress is noted, mai…
A Good Fight: How Indigenous Women Approach Boxing as a Mechanism for Social Change
This article examines the experiences of select Indigenous female boxers from Canada and the United States to explore and appreciate the diverse meanings they attach to amateur and professional boxing and to write these athletes into history by constructing short case studies of fighters active from the 1970s through the 2010s. We augment each fighter's story with context from scholarly and secondary source materials, such as newspapers, to round…
The effect of parental residential school attendance and parental involvement on Indigenous youth’s participation in sport and physical activity during school
Introduction: The objective of this study was to assess the effect of parental residential school attendance on youth's participation in sport and physical activity (S/PA) at school and to explore the potential role that parental education and parental involvement in school activities may play in mediating this relationship. Methods: This cross-sectional study used the 2012 Aboriginal Peoples Survey and included youth ages 12-17 (N=4,840). Struct…
Indigenous Resurgence, Regeneration, and Decolonization through Sport History
Research Article| July 01 2019 Indigenous Resurgence, Regeneration, and Decolonization through Sport History Murray G. Phillips; Murray G. Phillips Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Russell Field; Russell Field Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Christine O'Bonsawin; Christine O'Bonsawin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Janice Forsyth Janice Forsyth Search for other works …
Witnessing Painful Pasts: Understanding Images of Sports at Canadian Indian Residential Schools
Images are powerful tools for shaping perceptions of the past. In the context of sport at Canadian Indian residential schools, photographic images were consciously constructed and carefully selected and have been subsequently recirculated by contemporary media. Images of smiling, happy children at play at Canadian Indian residential schools have been used to lend credence to notions of sport as an unquestionable force for good without considering…
Correlates of Participation in Sports and Physical Activities among Indigenous Youth
Several correlates of Indigenous youth participation in sport and/or physical activities (S/PA) have been recognized; however, there is a paucity of research on the relative importance of these predictors, especially those related to the context in which the youth’s physical activities take place. The purpose of this cross-sectional study is to explore the correlates of participation in S/PA among off-reserve Indigenous youth. Using data from the…
The only good thing that happened at school’: Colonising narratives of sport in the Indian School Bulletin
This article examines how sport, recreation, and physical activity practices were represented in the Indian School Bulletin, a newsletter that was published by the Indian Affairs Branch from 1946 to 1957 to provide guidance and instruction for the teachers in its residential school system. During this time, the Branch made organised, competitive physical activities a primary site for the advancement of its assimilationist programmes and used the …
Introduction: Reflections on health and the body at Canadian Indian residential schools
The overall theme of this journal arose some time ago from conversations between many of the contributors about the term 'health' and the different ways researchers have applied it to our understanding of the Indian residential school system in Canada. The more we discussed how the term had been applied, and mulled over the possible implications of those applications, the more we recognised the importance of exploring the boundaries of the term, …
A Rink at this School is Almost as Essential as a Classroom: Hockey and Discipline at Pelican Lake Indian Residential School, 1945-1951
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 representative…
Negotiating Difference: How Aboriginal Athletes in the Maritimes Brokered their Involvement in Canadian Sport
Aboriginal perspectives on experiences in sport in Canada are largely missing from the existing body of literature on sociocultural aspects of sport, but this is especially the case in terms of Aboriginal people from the Maritimes region of Canada. Such an absence impedes our understanding of sport as an important cultural institution that can be used to normalize certain social practices, as well as challenge them. In this paper, we aim to contr…
Introduction: Olympic Perspectives
Olympic studies continue to enjoy a certain kind of popularity in the sport and physical education departments of universities throughout the world. For instance, Olympic studies are a central part
Make the Indian Understand his Place: Politics and the Establishment of the Tom Longboat Awards at Indian Affairs and the Amateur Athletic Union of Canada
The Tom Longboat Awards were created in 1951 through a joint agreement between the Indian Affairs Branch and the Amateur Athletic Union of Canada ostensibly to celebrate the life of Tom Longboat, the Onondaga runner who caught the world's attention in the early 1900s. His passing in 1949 sparked a trend in memorialising him that continues to this day. The Tom Longboat Awards, which have been given out every year since their inception, are the lon…
Aboriginal Sport in the City: Implications for Participation, Health, and Policy in Canada
The 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia have just ended, and I'm taking a moment to reflect on a pattern I've noticed over the past several Games.As the Director of the International Centre for Olympic Studies at Western University in London, Ontario, it's my job to watch the Games as they unfold in real time and to provide media with commentary and insight on whatever producers deem to be newsworthy items.Well, I don't really "watch" the Games s…
Aboriginal Peoples and Sport in Canada: Historical Foundations and Contemporary Issues
Aboriginal Peoples and Sport in Canada uses sport as a lens through which to examine Aboriginal peoples' issues of individual and community health, gender and race relations, culture and colonialism, and self-determination and agency. In this ground-breaking volume, leading scholars offer a multidisciplinary perspective on issues such as the clashing cultural imperatives that discourage Aboriginal athletes from participating at the national level…
Aboriginal Women ‘Working’ at Play: Canadian Insights
In this paper, we explore complex ways in which Aboriginal women experience sport. In particular, we examine the gendered dimensions they face in trying to gain recognition and support for their work and volunteering at the community level where their presence is ubiquitous and tangible: sport would not exist for many Aboriginal people if it were not for female labour. What we saw, at the heart of their struggles, are deeply held aspirations that…
The Indian Act and the (Re)Shaping of Canadian Aboriginal Sport Practices
This paper examines how the Indian Act shaped the types of sporting opportunities that were made available for Aboriginal people in the late 19th to the mid-20th centuries. The Indian Act was (and still is) a significant piece of legislation in terms of Aboriginal sport history in that it structured the possibilities for Aboriginal participation in sport in Canada and legitimized Euro-Canadian ways of playing as the most appropriate forms of play
‘Native to native … we'll recapture our spirits’: The world indigenous nations games and north American indigenous games as cultural resistance
(2006). ‘Native to native ... we'll recapture our spirits’: The world indigenous nations games and north American indigenous games as cultural resistance. The International Journal of the History of Sport: Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 294-314
A Grammar of Aspect: Usage and Meaning in the Russian Verb
Preface 1. The category of aspect 2. Aspect and form 3. Aspectual pairs 4. Past tense 5. Present and future tenses 6. Multiple action 7. Modals - I. Imperative 8. Modals - II. Infinitive and other constructions 9. Gerunds and participles 10. Verbs of motion 11. Conclusion Bibliography Russian index English index
A Rink at this School is Almost as Essential as a Classroom: Hockey and Discipline at Pelican Lake Indian Residential School, 1945-1951
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 representative…
Data, Development Discourse, and Decolonization: Developing an Indigenous Evaluation Model for Indigenous Youth Hockey in Canada
Quantitative methodologies play a critical, though often unacknowledged, role in establishing and maintaining unequal power relations in Canada. This power imbalance is readily apparent in Indigenous sport-for-development initiatives, which are permeated by deficit perspectives that produce and accentuate understandings about Indigenous dysfunction. As a result, these initiatives, no matter how positively framed or how much progress is noted, mai…
Witnessing Painful Pasts: Understanding Images of Sports at Canadian Indian Residential Schools
Images are powerful tools for shaping perceptions of the past. In the context of sport at Canadian Indian residential schools, photographic images were consciously constructed and carefully selected and have been subsequently recirculated by contemporary media. Images of smiling, happy children at play at Canadian Indian residential schools have been used to lend credence to notions of sport as an unquestionable force for good without considering…
The only good thing that happened at school’: Colonising narratives of sport in the Indian School Bulletin
This article examines how sport, recreation, and physical activity practices were represented in the Indian School Bulletin, a newsletter that was published by the Indian Affairs Branch from 1946 to 1957 to provide guidance and instruction for the teachers in its residential school system. During this time, the Branch made organised, competitive physical activities a primary site for the advancement of its assimilationist programmes and used the …
A Grammar of Aspect: Usage and Meaning in the Russian Verb
Preface 1. The category of aspect 2. Aspect and form 3. Aspectual pairs 4. Past tense 5. Present and future tenses 6. Multiple action 7. Modals - I. Imperative 8. Modals - II. Infinitive and other constructions 9. Gerunds and participles 10. Verbs of motion 11. Conclusion Bibliography Russian index English index
‘Native to native … we'll recapture our spirits’: The world indigenous nations games and north American indigenous games as cultural resistance
(2006). ‘Native to native ... we'll recapture our spirits’: The world indigenous nations games and north American indigenous games as cultural resistance. The International Journal of the History of Sport: Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 294-314
The Indian Act and the (Re)Shaping of Canadian Aboriginal Sport Practices
This paper examines how the Indian Act shaped the types of sporting opportunities that were made available for Aboriginal people in the late 19th to the mid-20th centuries. The Indian Act was (and still is) a significant piece of legislation in terms of Aboriginal sport history in that it structured the possibilities for Aboriginal participation in sport in Canada and legitimized Euro-Canadian ways of playing as the most appropriate forms of play
Aboriginal Women ‘Working’ at Play: Canadian Insights
In this paper, we explore complex ways in which Aboriginal women experience sport. In particular, we examine the gendered dimensions they face in trying to gain recognition and support for their work and volunteering at the community level where their presence is ubiquitous and tangible: sport would not exist for many Aboriginal people if it were not for female labour. What we saw, at the heart of their struggles, are deeply held aspirations that…
Aboriginal Peoples and Sport in Canada: Historical Foundations and Contemporary Issues
Aboriginal Peoples and Sport in Canada uses sport as a lens through which to examine Aboriginal peoples' issues of individual and community health, gender and race relations, culture and colonialism, and self-determination and agency. In this ground-breaking volume, leading scholars offer a multidisciplinary perspective on issues such as the clashing cultural imperatives that discourage Aboriginal athletes from participating at the national level…
Aboriginal Sport in the City: Implications for Participation, Health, and Policy in Canada
The 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia have just ended, and I'm taking a moment to reflect on a pattern I've noticed over the past several Games.As the Director of the International Centre for Olympic Studies at Western University in London, Ontario, it's my job to watch the Games as they unfold in real time and to provide media with commentary and insight on whatever producers deem to be newsworthy items.Well, I don't really "watch" the Games s…
Make the Indian Understand his Place: Politics and the Establishment of the Tom Longboat Awards at Indian Affairs and the Amateur Athletic Union of Canada
The Tom Longboat Awards were created in 1951 through a joint agreement between the Indian Affairs Branch and the Amateur Athletic Union of Canada ostensibly to celebrate the life of Tom Longboat, the Onondaga runner who caught the world's attention in the early 1900s. His passing in 1949 sparked a trend in memorialising him that continues to this day. The Tom Longboat Awards, which have been given out every year since their inception, are the lon…
Negotiating Difference: How Aboriginal Athletes in the Maritimes Brokered their Involvement in Canadian Sport
Aboriginal perspectives on experiences in sport in Canada are largely missing from the existing body of literature on sociocultural aspects of sport, but this is especially the case in terms of Aboriginal people from the Maritimes region of Canada. Such an absence impedes our understanding of sport as an important cultural institution that can be used to normalize certain social practices, as well as challenge them. In this paper, we aim to contr…
Introduction: Olympic Perspectives
Olympic studies continue to enjoy a certain kind of popularity in the sport and physical education departments of universities throughout the world. For instance, Olympic studies are a central part
The only good thing that happened at school’: Colonising narratives of sport in the Indian School Bulletin
This article examines how sport, recreation, and physical activity practices were represented in the Indian School Bulletin, a newsletter that was published by the Indian Affairs Branch from 1946 to 1957 to provide guidance and instruction for the teachers in its residential school system. During this time, the Branch made organised, competitive physical activities a primary site for the advancement of its assimilationist programmes and used the …
Introduction: Reflections on health and the body at Canadian Indian residential schools
The overall theme of this journal arose some time ago from conversations between many of the contributors about the term 'health' and the different ways researchers have applied it to our understanding of the Indian residential school system in Canada. The more we discussed how the term had been applied, and mulled over the possible implications of those applications, the more we recognised the importance of exploring the boundaries of the term, …
A Rink at this School is Almost as Essential as a Classroom: Hockey and Discipline at Pelican Lake Indian Residential School, 1945-1951
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 representative…
Correlates of Participation in Sports and Physical Activities among Indigenous Youth
Several correlates of Indigenous youth participation in sport and/or physical activities (S/PA) have been recognized; however, there is a paucity of research on the relative importance of these predictors, especially those related to the context in which the youth’s physical activities take place. The purpose of this cross-sectional study is to explore the correlates of participation in S/PA among off-reserve Indigenous youth. Using data from the…
The effect of parental residential school attendance and parental involvement on Indigenous youth’s participation in sport and physical activity during school
Introduction: The objective of this study was to assess the effect of parental residential school attendance on youth's participation in sport and physical activity (S/PA) at school and to explore the potential role that parental education and parental involvement in school activities may play in mediating this relationship. Methods: This cross-sectional study used the 2012 Aboriginal Peoples Survey and included youth ages 12-17 (N=4,840). Struct…
Indigenous Resurgence, Regeneration, and Decolonization through Sport History
Research Article| July 01 2019 Indigenous Resurgence, Regeneration, and Decolonization through Sport History Murray G. Phillips; Murray G. Phillips Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Russell Field; Russell Field Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Christine O'Bonsawin; Christine O'Bonsawin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Janice Forsyth Janice Forsyth Search for other works …
Witnessing Painful Pasts: Understanding Images of Sports at Canadian Indian Residential Schools
Images are powerful tools for shaping perceptions of the past. In the context of sport at Canadian Indian residential schools, photographic images were consciously constructed and carefully selected and have been subsequently recirculated by contemporary media. Images of smiling, happy children at play at Canadian Indian residential schools have been used to lend credence to notions of sport as an unquestionable force for good without considering…
Methodology and Indigenous memory: Using photographs to anchor critical reflections on Indian residential school experiences
In this paper, we discuss the theoretical foundations, methodology, and method for a now-underway historical Indigenous sport photo elicitation project. In our photo elicitation sessions with former members of the Sioux Lookout Black Hawks, an Indian residential school (boarding school) hockey team that famously toured Ontario, Canada in 1951, we use photo elicitation to spark memories and provide a sense of immediacy for participants, most of wh…
Data, Development Discourse, and Decolonization: Developing an Indigenous Evaluation Model for Indigenous Youth Hockey in Canada
Quantitative methodologies play a critical, though often unacknowledged, role in establishing and maintaining unequal power relations in Canada. This power imbalance is readily apparent in Indigenous sport-for-development initiatives, which are permeated by deficit perspectives that produce and accentuate understandings about Indigenous dysfunction. As a result, these initiatives, no matter how positively framed or how much progress is noted, mai…
A Good Fight: How Indigenous Women Approach Boxing as a Mechanism for Social Change
This article examines the experiences of select Indigenous female boxers from Canada and the United States to explore and appreciate the diverse meanings they attach to amateur and professional boxing and to write these athletes into history by constructing short case studies of fighters active from the 1970s through the 2010s. We augment each fighter's story with context from scholarly and secondary source materials, such as newspapers, to round…
Indigenous Visual History: Remembering “Us” in Indian Residential School Hockey Photographs
Photography was a potent settler colonial technology that was employed — and contested — in the residential school system. In one photographic campaign, the Canadian government marshalled images of Indigenous children on a once-in-a-lifetime hockey excursion to publicly convey it was successfully assimilating them into Euro-Canadian society. The 1951 Sioux Lookout Black Hawks, a residential school hockey team from the Pelican Lake Indian Resident…
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