ABSTRACT

What it means/meant to be an authentic and tradition abiding Indigenous subject was materialised and reified by the bodily enactments of authentically Indigenous bodily practices. In relation to critical physical research, what it meant to be a bone fide Indigenous person became intertwined with institutional discourses that located indigeneity within the physical realm, which in-turn disciplined through limiting and employing the Indigenous body in physical labour. Sites of work, leisure, sport, home-life, schools and practices such as eating, cleaning, and exercising have disciplined the Indigenous body throughout colonisation. In this chapter, I question on what metaphysical grounds can current conceptions of sport, health and physical education move towards deeply challenging colonization's ‘relentless constitution’ of indigeneity?