Indigenous worldviews and scholarship are underrepresented and underdeveloped in sport for development and wider sport management spaces. Given many sport for social change initiatives target Indigenous populations, this is concerning. By adopting a Kaupapa MÄori approach, a strengths-based stance, and working together with two plus-sport and sport-plus cases from provincial and national New Zealand rugby settings: the Taranaki Rugby Football Unionâs and Featsâ Pae Tawhiti (seek distant horizons) MÄori and Pasifika Rugby Academy and the E TĹŤ Toa (stand strong), hei tĹŤ he rangatira (become a leader) MÄori Rugby Development camps, the authors provide an illustration of Indigenous theoryâpractice. They argue sport for social change practices that focus on Indigenous peoples would be greatly improved if underpinned by the principles of perspective, privilege, politics, protection, and people. Thus, any sport for social change praxis seeking to partner with Indigenous communities ought to be informed by Indigenous philosophical viewpoints.
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