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Examining NHL Trading Cards as products of colonialism and responding with Indigenous perspectives on relationality
February 11 at 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
The Institute for Community Engaged Research (ICER) is excited to welcome Naim Cardinal as the next guest in the Starting the Conversation Speaker Series!
Everyone is welcome to attend either in person (ART 368) or via Zoom.
For the Zoom link, please email 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 Naim Cardinal
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.
