ABSTRACT
This chapter highlights one broad area – archives and archival uses – for expanding methodological approaches in Indigenous sport history. It concerns expanding methodological repertoires for Indigenous sport histories inside and outside formal, public archives in ways that grapple with these issues of archival privileging. To do so, however, new repertoires are required beyond simple factual extraction from archives in order to better align research practices in sport history with Indigenous research paradigms and needs. Working with archives, both inside and out, offers other modes of practice for sport historians beyond those discussed here. Globally, some archivists have begun to include Indigenous values and principles in their structures of governance, practice, procedures, protocols, and ethical guidelines. Inside the archive, these include reading in new ways and contributing to archival reclamation. Outside the archive, oral history and, the methodology of yarning, offer under-explored potential.
