Everyone is welcome to join us for the next Starting the Conversation!
These talks are informal gatherings where a speaker shares some aspect of their community engaged research, as a way to engage with others interested in learning from their experience.
We’re excited to welcome Naim Cardinal as the next speaker!
Wednesday, Feb. 11
12:00 to 1:00 pm
ARTS 368, UBC Okanagan
Via Zoom, please e-mail icer.ok@ubc.ca
Abstract:
This presentation will be guided by the following question: how have NHL hockey trading cards historically portrayed Indigenous players, and how have these representations reinforced racialized narratives and colonial stereotypes?
As an Indigenous (Cree) researcher and long-time hockey card collector, I have witnessed how hockey trading cards have historically circulated racialized narratives that shape mainstream understandings of Indigenous Peoples in what is now Canada. Borrowing from Patrick Wolfe and Lorenzo Veracini, I will discuss how trading cards operate as tools of erasure and replacement: reframing Indigenous hockey experiences through marking logics then taken up and repurposed by political interests, producing narratives controlled by settler colonialism appearing in imagery and text.
About me:
Naim Cardinal is nehiyaw (Cree) from Tallcree Tribal Government in Treaty 8 territory. He is a husband, father, educator, student, and has been collecting hockey cards for over 25 years. His hockey card collection focuses on collecting a rookie card of every NHL player with Indigenous ancestry.
Photo credit: Dr. Taylor McKee
