Colluding with the Enemy?: Nationalism and Depictions of "Aboriginality" in Canadian Olympic Moments

Autor/in	Adese, Jennifer
Titel	Colluding with the Enemy?: Nationalism and Depictions of "Aboriginality" in Canadian Olympic Moments
Quelle	In: American Indian Quarterly, 36 (2012) 4, S.479-502 (24 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0095-182X
Schlagwörter	Indigenous Populations; Cultural Pluralism; Foreign Countries; Ceremonies; Nationalism; Educational Practices; American Indians; Athletics; Competition; History; Identification (Psychology); Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sinti und Roma; Kulturpluralismus; Ausland; Zeremoniell; Nationalismus; Bildungspraxis; American Indian; Indianer; Leichtathletik; Wettkampf; Geschichte; Geschichtsdarstellung; Kanada
Abstract	The 1976 Montreal Summer Olympic closing ceremony, the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympic opening ceremony, and the 2010 Winter Olympic opening ceremony in Vancouver each placed Indigenous peoples at the heart of its expressions of regional, provincial, and Canadian national identity in one form or another. Why is it that organizing committees view Indigenous peoples as central to Olympic ceremonies and as so seemingly central to the narratives of national identity produced during them? What is Canada trying to say about itself by insisting on Indigenous presence within the Olympic ceremonies when in so many other spaces in Canadian society they are purposefully invisibilized? In this article, the author discusses nationalism and depictions of "aboriginality" in Canadian Olympic moments. She argues that while earlier national narratives alluded to the racial superiority of "white" Canadians and their hand in subjugating/civilizing Indigenous populations, in recent decades it has become far less fashionable to insinuate such things. Canada has thus consistently drawn on the multiculturalist rhetoric (of equality) as a framework for narrating Canadian-Indigenous relations. The continuing investment of Canada in "Olympic Aboriginality," in using Indigenous peoples as symbols of Canada's uniqueness and diversity (key themes of multiculturalism), is a desire amplified in a climate of growing global competitiveness, and, as such, Canada has actively sought to repackage the nation's image "for commercial consumption and nostalgic renarration purged of historical responsibility." (Contains 69 notes.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10