Choosing to Belong
Shalaya Valenzuela is rebuilding her body, her belief and her place in her culture, one deliberate...
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Category: Issue 138, Sports & Health
Another Chance to Wear the Maple Leaf
By SAY Magazine Nearly 30 years after her first Olympic appearance, Kerrie Buchberger found...
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Identity You Never Have to Earn
For 20 years, wrestler, teacher, and new mother Justina Di Stasio believed she had to earn the...
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Beyond the Finish Line
How Shayna Ankou found purpose through sport, culture and community Shayna Ankou (née...
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From a Place of Hurting to a Place of Healing
RESTORING INDIGENOUS PATHWAYS TO WELLNESS When people think about a museum, they often...
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The Creator’s Game
The Origins, Appropriation, and Reclamation of Lacrosse Long before it became a school sport, had...
Read MoreThe Scholarship of Wellness
ESSENTIAL READING ON INDIGENOUS HEALTH FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA PRESS For generations, Indigenous communities have understood health as something far larger than the absence of illness—a balance woven through land,...
Read MoreThe Enduring Legacy of Indigenous Sports
Why Traditional Indigenous Games Were Created Long before modern organized sport, Indigenous Peoples across North America played games of endurance, dexterity and skill, with meanings that reached far beyond recreation. Many...
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