Indigenous voices matter: Graham and Linda’s legacy, ‘still propping up the sky,’ is now lifting to another level!

Rochelle Stewart-Withers, Jeremy Hapeta, Audrey Giles, Haydn Morgan

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Abstract

Over 30 years ago, Graham Hingangaroa Smith (1992) presented a paper titled “Tane-nui-a-Rangi's Legacy: Propping up the Sky” at the joint New Zealand Association for Research in Education and Australian Association for Research in Education conference in Geelong, Australia. In this paper Smith argued that “resistance strategies developed by Māori people, ought to be carefully studied in order to identify the potential intervention factors” (1992, p. 4) inherent within a (Indigenous) Kaupapa Māori approach. In particular, Smith reinforced the need to learn from innovations with a view to the wider application of success indicators embedded within Indigenous responses. Such “radical action,” he argued, was necessary to intervene in the “educational crisis” that Māori then faced, trapped within a narrow range of existing mainstream schooling options. Three decades on, similar criticisms could be attributed to sport for development (SFD) initiatives with/for Indigenous communities. Indeed, our plea is for researchers, practitioners, and policy makers operating in the SFD space
to take notice of the results and recommendations from the articles in this Special Issue.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1-2
Number of pages2
JournalJournal of Sport for Development
Volume11
Issue number1
Publication statusPublished - 21 Dec 2023

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