#research done by dr. sam mckegney from

[tkachow]

with what’s currently happening to ethan bear, i think white hockey fans really need to sit down and think about how fucking colonized hockey is. this is a sport that was used as an assimilation tactic in residential schools during the ethnic genocide of the indigenous peoples of canada. there are so many accounts from indigenous peoples firsthand explaining that they use hockey as a tool in their liberation. ethan bear has a right to play this sport that he loves and he deserves to be respected while he plays it. turning around and spewing racial slurs and harassing him on social media with racist stereotypes shows and enforces the settler colonialist ties in hockey. do better.

#source: #decolonizing sport: indigeneity hockey and canadian nationhood #research done by dr. sam mckegney from #queen’s university #there’s a whole essay i could write about the team in chicago but i know that every single h*wks fan is gonna send me de*th thre*ts lol #wanna mention that it goes so much beyond what i (a settler) can say in a little tumblr post #i urge everyone on this website who isn’t native to read as much as they can and listen to indigenous scholars and peoples at every chanve #what they have to say is infinitely more important that what i’m saying #ethan bear #edmonton oilers #nhl #tw settler colonialism #tw racism #tw anti-indigenous racism #tw residential schools #tw colonization