This article examines the field of sport for development (SFD) while considering Indigenous resurgence amidst Canada’s neoliberal settler-colonial landscape. While sharing challenges encountered within their practice, program staff from the Promoting Life-skills in Aboriginal Youth program revealed high levels of constructive self-criticism and reflexivity. There are three emergent themes, the adoption of which appeared essential for transforming the sector in recognition of Indigenous resurgence: growth and pace; Indigenous agency and knowledge; and political engagement. Grounded in settler colonialism and resurgence, this paper also reflects on the field of SFD and what it would mean to decolonize the practice. The article concludes by asking if non-Indigenous scholars can study SFD by subverting the colonial status quo that is also reproduced in this research field.

本文考察了体育促进发展领域 (SFD)，同时考虑了加拿大新自由主义定居者-殖民景观中的原住民复兴。在分享他们在实践中遇到的挑战时，促进原住民青年生活技能项目的项目工作人员表现出高水平的建设性自我批评和反思。出现了三个新兴主题，采用这些主题似乎对于改变该行业以承认土著复兴至关重要：增长和步伐；土著机构和知识；和政治参与。本文以定居者殖民主义和复兴为基础，还反思了 SFD 领域以及非殖民化实践的意义。