LEADER 03664nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910462301403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-73454-0 010 $a0-8108-8709-6 035 $a(CKB)2670000000276762 035 $a(EBL)1053892 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000756427 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12300641 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000756427 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10751312 035 $a(PQKB)11493244 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1053892 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1053892 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10624646 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL404704 035 $a(OCoLC)845247061 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000276762 100 $a20120720d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 04$aThe Native American identity in sports$b[electronic resource] $ecreating and preserving a culture /$fedited by Frank A. Salamone 210 $aLanham, Md. $cScarecrow Press, Inc.$dc2013 215 $a1 online resource (221 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4422-5578-1 311 $a0-8108-8708-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; 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 Wrestling 327 $a8 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 Contributors 330 $aThis 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 fac 606 $aIndians of North America$xSports 606 $aIndian athletes$zNorth America$xHistory 606 $aIndians of North America$xEthnic identity 606 $aIndians of North America$xCultural assimilation 606 $aRacism in sports$zNorth America$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aIndians of North America$xSports. 615 0$aIndian athletes$xHistory. 615 0$aIndians of North America$xEthnic identity. 615 0$aIndians of North America$xCultural assimilation. 615 0$aRacism in sports$xHistory. 676 $a305.897 701 $aSalamone$b Frank A$0657937 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910462301403321 996 $aThe Native American identity in sports$92242352 997 $aUNINA