9 Claiming “Our Game”: Skwxwú7mesh Lacrosse and the Performance of Indigenous Nationhood in the Early Twentieth Century

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Figures x
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Introduction 3
6. Expertise and Authority
7. Medical Men, Masculine Respectability, and the Contest for Power in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Quebec 29
8. Accident Prevention in Early-Twentieth-Century Quebec and the Construction of Masculine Technical Expertise 46
9. “The Spiritual Aspect”: Gordon A. Friesen and the Mechanization of the Modern Hospital 64
10. “I am still the Supt. in this plant”: Negotiating Middle-Class Masculinity in Edmonton Packinghouses in an Era of Union Strength, 1947–66 85
11. Masculine Spaces
12. The Place of Manliness: Architecture, Domesticity, and Men’s Clubs 109
13. “As Christ the Carpenter”: Work-Camp Missions and the Construction of Christian Manhood in Late-Nineteenth-and Early-Twentieth-Century Canada 132
14. An Open Window on Other Masculinities: Gay Bars and Visibility in Montreal 150
15. Performing Masculinities
16. Scales of Manliness: Masculinity and Disability in the Displays of Little People as Freaks in Ontario, 1900s–50s 175
17. Claiming “Our Game”: Skwxwú7mesh Lacrosse and the Performance of Indigenous Nationhood in the Early Twentieth Century 195
18. Sea Shepherds, Eco-warriors, and Impresarios: Performing Eco-masculinity in the Canadian Seal Hunt of the Late Twentieth Century 218
19. The New Quebec Man: Activism and Collective Improvisation at Petit Québec Libre, 1970–73 236
20. Boys to Men
21. Men’s Business: Masculine Adolescence and Social Projection in Selected Coming-of-Age Novels from Interwar Quebec 257
22. Boys and Boyhood: Exploring the Lives of Boys in Windsor, Ontario, during the Postwar Era, 1945–65 275
23. Heroes on Campus: Student Veterans and Discourses of Masculinity in Post–Second World War Canada 293
24. Constructing Canadianness: Terry Fox and the Masculine Ideal in Canada 312
25. Men in Motion
26. Tough Bodies, Fast Paddles, Well-Dressed Wives: Measuring Manhood among French Canadian and Métis Voyageurs in the North American Fur Trade 333
27. “The Moral Grandeur of Fleeing to Canada”: Masculinity and the Gender Politics of American Draft Dodgers during the Vietnam War 347
28. Rebellion on the Road: Masculinity and Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs in Postwar Ontario 364
29. Faces of Fatherhood
30. Celebrating the Family Man: From Father’s Day to La Fête des Pères, 1910–60 385
31. “I’m a lousy father”: Alcoholic Fathers in Postwar Canada and the Myths of Masculine Crises 409
32. Afterword 427
33. Contributors 434
34. Index 439