Canadian National Sport Organizations’ Responses to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Calls to Action and Settler Silence

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Yasmin RajwaniSchool of International Development and Global Studies, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

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Audrey R. GilesSchool of Human Kinetics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

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Shawn FordeSchool of Human Kinetics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1123/ssj.2020-0144
First Published Online:
25 Sep 2021
In Print:
Volume 39: Issue 2
Page Range:
205–215
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The Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s 2015 Calls to Action identified societal measures necessary for a successful reconciliation process between Indigenous peoples and settlers in Canada, five of which were specific to sport. Half a decade after the Calls to Action were published, the response by national sport organizations in Canada has escaped scholarly attention. Through a lens informed by settler colonial studies, the authors employed summative content analysis to examine the ways, if any, in which national sport organizations in Canada have implemented relevant Calls to Action. The results indicate a lack of response by most national sport organizations which, we argue, represents settler silence.

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