Much of the research on Indigenous youth’s sport has focused on the barriers that they experience in accessing opportunities for participation. What remains underexplored is the idea that nonparticipation might actually reflect Indigenous youth’s deliberate refusal of Euro-Canadian sport. In making this argument, first, we connect Indigenous theories of refusal to Indigenous youth sport participation in Canada. Second, we examine the researcher’s role in reproducing colonialism in sport studies. Third, we apply examples of Indigenous refusal of sport. We conclude by discerning the central tensions of the topic and areas for future study. This paper is a call for researchers to study refusal, not only as an act by Indigenous youth, but also as a method that researchers can use in refusing to reproduce colonial representations of Indigenous youth.

许多关于土著青年体育的研究都集中在他们在获得参与机会方面遇到的障碍上。仍然未得到充分探索的是，不参与可能实际上反映了土著青年故意拒绝欧洲-加拿大运动的想法。在提出这一论点时，首先，我们将土著拒绝理论与加拿大土著青年体育参与联系起来。其次，我们考察了研究人员在体育研究中再现殖民主义的作用。第三，我们应用土著拒绝运动的例子。最后，我们辨别了该主题的中心张力和未来研究的领域。本文呼吁研究人员研究拒绝，不仅将其作为土著青年的行为，而且还作为研究人员可以用来拒绝再现土著青年的殖民表征的一种方法。