Beyond Fistfights and Basketball

Substantial and necessary research examining the violence perpetrated against Native women continues to flourish, while violence and masculinity studies focused on Native men draws little attention. Meanwhile the murder rate of Native men is three times higher than Native women, twice as high as white men, and occurs at the hands of police more often than any other U.S. racialized group per capita. Colonization divided ‘Christians’ (white) and ‘heathens’ (Native), with settler whites identifying Native men as wild and threatening. I suggest the construct of settler colonialism and the ‘toxic gendering’ of Native masculinity continues today and impacts Native men internally (psychologically) and externally (rationally), contributing to violence perpetrated against and by them. This paper is an interpretive analysis of “Scary Brown Man” and Reservation Blues as examined through the intersection of the toxic gendering bias intrinsic to settler colonialism. Alexie’s novel offers a depiction of ‘typical’ reservation life and the conflicting struggle to maintain a healthy Native identity, while Ross’s article brings real-life situations into the conversation, encouraging the entry of intersectional discourse around Native masculinity into the arena of gender/bias research as applied to settler colonial studies while questioning the role of identity politics within disciplines

Archaeology · Basketball · Masculinity · Native american · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies · History · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society

• Native Narratives

  Gerald Vizenor•Native Americans and First…•2009

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• "The Exaggeration of Despair in Sherman Alexie's "Reservation Blues

  Gloria W Bird, Gloria Bird•Wicazo Sa Review•1995

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• Beyond white privilege

  Open Access•Anne Bonds, Joshua F J Inwood et al.•Progress in Human Geography•2015

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• Settler colonialism and the elimination of the native

  Patrick Wolfe•Journal of Genocide Research•2006

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• Indigenous Identity

  Hilary N Weaver•The American Indian Quarterly•2001

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