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Autore: | Bloom John <1962-> |
Titolo: | To show what an Indian can do [[electronic resource] ] : sports at Native American boarding schools / / John Bloom |
Pubblicazione: | Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2000 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (191 p.) |
Disciplina: | 796/.089/97 |
Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
Soggetto geografico: | United States Race relations |
United States Social conditions | |
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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | To show what an Indian can do |
ISBN: | 0-8166-9194-0 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910784396503321 |
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