Along with many other United Nations entities, the UN Declaration for the Rights of Indigenous Peoples’ mandate in terms of Indigenous physical practices is based on a sport for development and peace (SDP) approach. SDP, however, is a problematic frame through which to engage in traditional games, as sports, and the modern sporting enterprise, are symptomatic of Western, capitalist, and (neo)colonialist tendencies. We argue that the international Indigenous SDP apparatus should instead be concerned with a games-for-reconciliation (GFR) approach, in which self-determination is the focal point in reconciliatory programme design.