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What is relationality?
Relationality is simply a condition of being in relation to others, including people and land. Also a type of bond or connection.
This person was a professional boxer and actress. They are a world champion in two weight classes and is an active supporter of the MMIWG movement.
Kali Reis
North America's oldest sport and known for being played with two sticks.
Stick Ball
This event was a deadly virus that brought about families staying closer together and creating Social Distance Powwows.
COVID-19
What is the easiest example given about relationality in sports?
Sport Teams
This person was the first player from the Navajo Nation to sign with an NFL team. He is known for his locker room speech.
Shiyazh Pete
This sport is a style of basketball that forces tempo with aggressive play, quick scoring (or shooting), and an assertive defense that looks to force turnovers through pressing or half-court traps.
Rez Ball
Allowed greater protections to women from domestic, dating, and sexual violence. Later expanded again in 2013 and 2022 to include indigenous peoples and the LGBTQ+ community.
Violence Against Women Act (VAWA)
These people do not identify as just female or male; they are integrated genders
Two Spirited
This person is a professional runner/advocate and is the founder of Rising Hearts.
This is a tradition of endurance, spirituality, and community connection. Many athletes use this as a way to create and promote messages.
Forced children to give up Native values in exchange to assimilate to Western society. To bring awareness to this topic, we now celebrate Orange Shirt Day.
Boarding Schools
On June 15, 2021, this person was reported missing from their residence near Sweetwater, Arizona, by family members. Early that morning, their vehicle, a Ford F-150, was seen leaving the residence. It was believed that the truck may have been driven toward Thoreau, New Mexico, and may have proceeded in the direction of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Their vehicle was described as a 2005 Ford F-150, gray or silver in color, with a broken tailgate that would not close with Arizona license plate AFE7101.
Ella Mae Begay
This person is the first Native American athlete to win gold for the United States. They are known for playing football, basketball, baseball, and track and field.
Jim Thorpe
This is a sport where athletes ride horses bareback and switch between horses at full gallop.
Indian Relay
Forced native peoples off their land onto reservations, in which people would continue to get kicked off these new reservations and forced onto new ones. Today, this helps them come together and mobilise as a group in order to protect their current culture and land.
Indian Removal Act
What is the point or goal of the Indigenous games?
It's about community and sport.
This person is an Indigenous runner who has won 2 National Junior College Athletic Association Championships and 11 All-American awards. They were inspired by Jordan Marie Daniel.
Rosalie Fish
This is a massive multi-sport and cultural gathering uniting thousands of Indigenous youth from across North America to compete in 16 different sports while celebrating heritage
North American Indigenous Games (NAIG)
This event forcefully removed children from their families where they would get placed in middle-class white families in attempt to remove them from their native culture. Today, this serves as ground to advocate on and form groups in order to preserve and protect their culture. Nowadays, indigenous children must go through native communities before any other group may adopt them.
The Sixties Scoop