03603nam 2200649Ia 450 991081897460332120200520144314.01-283-73454-00-8108-8709-6(CKB)2670000000276762(EBL)1053892(SSID)ssj0000756427(PQKBManifestationID)12300641(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000756427(PQKBWorkID)10751312(PQKB)11493244(MiAaPQ)EBC1053892(Au-PeEL)EBL1053892(CaPaEBR)ebr10624646(CaONFJC)MIL404704(OCoLC)845247061(EXLCZ)99267000000027676220120720d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe Native American identity in sports creating and preserving a culture /edited by Frank A. SalamoneLanham, Md. Scarecrow Press, Inc.c20131 online resource (221 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4422-5578-1 0-8108-8708-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Preface; 1 Building a Library Collection: Fifty Years of Native American Athletes, Sports, and Games on Film; 2 Asserting Native American Agency in an Assimilationist Institution; 3 Amateur Boxing and Assimilation at the Stewart Indian School, Carson City, Nevada, 1935-1948; 4 Federal Indian Boarding Schools in New Mexico; 5 American Indian Collegiate Athletes Accessing Higher Education Through Sport; 6 Toka: Empowering Women and Combating Obesity in Tohono O'odham Communities; 7 Native American Wrestling8 Grappling with Tradition: The Seminoles and the Commercialization of Alligator Wrestling9 Sacred Ground and Ground Strokes: The Development of Native American Tennis; 10 Billy Mills: Olympic Champion, Lakota Warrior; 11 The Coldest War: Billy Mills, the 1964 Olympics, and the Understandings of Native American Cold War Race Relations; 12 On the Offensive: Anti-Indian Racism in the Creation and Contestation of the NCAA Ban on Native American Mascots; Index; About the Editor and ContributorsThis collection of essays examines how sport has contributed to shaping and expressing Native American identity-from the attempt of the old Indian Schools to "Americanize" Native Americans through sport to the "Indian mascot" controversy and what it says about the broader public view of Native Americans. Additional essays explore the contemporary use of the traditional sport Toka to combat obesity in some Native American communities, the Seminoles' commercialization of alligator wrestling-a "Native" sport that was, in facIndians of North AmericaSportsIndian athletesNorth AmericaHistoryIndians of North AmericaEthnic identityIndians of North AmericaCultural assimilationRacism in sportsNorth AmericaHistoryIndians of North AmericaSports.Indian athletesHistory.Indians of North AmericaEthnic identity.Indians of North AmericaCultural assimilation.Racism in sportsHistory.305.897Salamone Frank A657937MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910818974603321The Native American identity in sports4004642UNINA