Dan Henhawk

Dr. Dan Henhawk is an Assistant Professor at the University of Manitoba's Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management, based in Winnipeg, Canada. His research critically examines leisure, sport, and recreation through an Indigenous lens, focusing on decolonization, sovereignty, and the intersection of leisure with neo-colonial and neo-liberal frameworks. He holds a PhD (2018) and MA (2007) from the University of Waterloo's Recreation and Leisure Studies Department, alongside a BA (2004) in the same field.

• Research Focus: Indigenous ways of knowing, land-based practices, and auto-ethnographic approaches to competitive sport.
• Courses Taught: Introduction to Outdoor and Land-Based Recreation (REC 2130), History of Physical Activity and Leisure (KPER 2170).

His work emphasizes privileging Indigenous epistemologies to challenge Western conceptualizations of leisure and labor. Active in narrative inquiry methodologies, he connects personal storytelling to broader socio-cultural critiques.