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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812932403321

Autore

Bloom John <1962->

Titolo

To show what an Indian can do [[electronic resource] ] : sports at Native American boarding schools / / John Bloom

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2000

ISBN

0-8166-9194-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (191 p.)

Collana

Sport and culture series ; ; v. 2

Disciplina

796/.089/97

Soggetti

Indians of North America - Sports

Indians of North America - Education

Sports - United States - History

Off-reservation boarding schools - United States - History

Discrimination in sports - United States - History

United States Race relations

United States Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-144) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Native American Athletics and Assimilation; 2. The Struggle over the Meaning of Sports; 3. The 1930's and Pan-Indian Pride; 4. Female Physical Fitness, Sexuality, and Pleasure; 5. Narratives of Boarding School Life; Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

"The Carlisle Indian School and the Haskell Institute in Kansas were among the many federally operated boarding schools enacting the U.S. government's education policy toward Native Americans from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, one designed to remove children from familiar surroundings and impose mainstream American culture upon them. To Show What an Indian Can Do explores the history of sports programs at these institutions and, drawing on the recollections of former students, describes the importance of competitive sports in their lives. Author John Bloom focuses on the male and female students who did not typically go on to greater athletic glory but who found in sports something otherwise denied them by the boarding school program: a sense of community,



accomplishment, and dignity."--BOOK JACKET.