Beyond the Rink
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Beyond the Rink

Behind the Images of Residential School Hockey

  1. 205 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Beyond the Rink

Behind the Images of Residential School Hockey

About this book

Teammates, champions, Survivors

In 1951, after winning the Thunder Bay district championship, the Sioux Lookout Black Hawks hockey team from Pelican Lake Indian Residential School embarked on a whirlwind promotional tour through Ottawa and Toronto. They were accompanied by a professional photographer from the National Film Board who documented the experience. The tour was intended to demonstrate the success of the residential school system and introduce the Black Hawks to "civilizing" activities and the "benefits" of assimilating into Canadian society. For some of the boys, it was the beginning of a lifelong love of hockey; for others, it was an escape from the brutal living conditions and abuse at the residential school. 

In Beyond the Rink, Alexandra Giancarlo, Janice Forsyth, and Braden Te Hiwi collaborate with three surviving team members—Kelly Bull, Chris Cromarty, and David Wesley—to share the complex legacy behind the 1951 tour photos. This book reveals the complicated role of sports in residential school histories, commemorating the team's stellar hockey record and athletic prowess while exposing important truths about "Canada's Game" and how it shaped ideas about the nation. By considering their past, these Survivors imagine a better way forward not just for themselves, their families, and their communities, but for Canada as a whole.

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Information

Publisher
University of Manitoba Press
Year
2025
eBook ISBN
9781772841084
Subtopic
Sociology

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Abbreviations
  3. Contents
  4. Illustrations
  5. Preface: Tea with Kelly
  6. Introduction: Picturing the Past
  7. Chapter 1: The Whole Story
  8. Chapter 2: The Truth about Photographs
  9. Chapter 3: Promoting the "Good Work" of Schooling
  10. Chapter 4: Surviving Pelican Lake
  11. Chapter 5: Hockey Will Make Things Better
  12. Chapter 6: A Means of Escape
  13. Chapter 7: Visual Repatriation
  14. Epilogue: Picturing the Future
  15. Acknowledgements
  16. Notes
  17. Selected Bibliography
  18. Index