Barriers to Physical Activity: General Population First Nations, Inuit, and Métis

With the exception of a paucity of articles on Indigenous Peoples who identify as LGBTQITS+,5 Indigenous senior citizens, and Indigenous Peoples with intellectual and physical disabilities, the searches, though not exhaustive, revealed a sufficient number of articles and reports to offer a general representation of the current landscape of physical activity, recreation, and sport in Canada as it relates to Indigenous Peoples. Barriers to Physical Activity: General Population (First Nations, Inuit, and Métis)

Environmental, SocioEconomic, Political.

The literature revealed that the location, availability, or nature of facilities either made participation in physical activity difficult or failed to inspire activity for Indigenous Peoples both on- and off-reserve and in urban, rural, and remote settings. These included cases where there were few nearby playgrounds, no allpurpose facilities, limited public transit options, cold temperatures, and lack of snow removal (e.g., Bruner & Chad, 2013; Graham & Stamler, 2010; Mansfield et al., 2012; Rice et al., 2016). Sometimes participants resided in locations where they felt unsafe to travel to facilities because of high incidents of crime, loose dogs, or poor roads (e.g., Joseph et al., 2012; Mansfield et al., 2012; Wicklum et al., 2019).

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5 Lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, intersex, Two-Spirit, with “+” making space for the gender identities/sexual orientations that the acronym does not otherwise cover.