ABSTRACT
The utilization of sport to indoctrinate Indigenous peoples with settler-colonial values has a long history in the Canadian and American contexts. Such practices were intimately tied to the positioning of Euro-centric values related to land, capitalism, and (neo)liberal ideologies as superior and continue to be implicated in ongoing neo-colonialism. As such, tensions surround the continued use of sport for development and peace (SDP) in the Indigenous context and raise significant questions of ongoing neo-colonialism by settler-colonial governments, non-governmental organizations, and Indigenous-run organizations. This has resulted in calls to consider decolonizing frameworks to address issues of ongoing colonialism within SDP (Darnell & Hayhurst, 2011). However, as Tuck and Yang (2012) remind us, decolonization is a metaphor not for the improvement of our societies but for the repatriation of land and renewal of Indigenous cultures. The question of decolonization is thus critical in the face of increasing movements by non-Indigenous and Indigenous actors alike who have engaged social innovation and social entrepreneurship (SE) as frameworks to deliver sport and address issues of social and cultural importance. The purpose of this chapter is thus to explore the tensions related to SDP, social innovation and SE in the Indigenous context.
