To Show What an Indian Can Do : Sports at Native American Boarding Schools.
Title:
To Show What an Indian Can Do : Sports at Native American Boarding Schools.
Author:
Bloom, John.
ISBN:
9780816691944
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (191 pages)
Series:
Sport and Culture
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Native American Athletics and Assimilation -- 2. The Struggle over the Meaning of Sports -- 3. The 1930s and Pan-Indian Pride -- 4. Female Physical Fitness, Sexuality, and Pleasure -- 5. Narratives of Boarding School Life -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
To Show What an Indian Can Do explores the history of sports programs at Native American boarding schools and, drawing on the recollections of former students, describes the importance of competitive sport in their lives. John Bloom focuses on the students who did not typically go on to greater athletic glory but who found in sports something otherwise denied them at boarding school: a sense of community, accomplishment, and dignity.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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