The Native American identity in sports : creating and preserving a culture / edited by Frank A. Salamone.

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Other Authors: Salamone, Frank A.
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2013.
Subjects:
Indigenous peoples of North America > Sports.
Indigenous athletes > North America > History.
Indigenous peoples of North America > Ethnic identity.
Indigenous peoples of North America > Cultural assimilation.
Racism in sports > North America > History.
Physical Description:vi, 213 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Building a library collection: fifty years of Native American athletes, sports, and games on film / Daisy V. Domínguez
  • Asserting Native American agency in an assimilationist institution / Stacy Sewell
  • Amateur boxing and assimilation at the Stewart Indian School, Carson City, Nevada, 1935-1948 / Andrew McGregor
  • Federal Indian boarding schools in New Mexico / Sean Sullivan
  • American Indian collegiate athletes accessing higher education through sport / Alisse Ali-Christie
  • Toka: empowering women and combating obesity in Tohono O'odham communities / Katherine Brooks
  • Native American wrestling / Frank A. Salamone
  • Grappling with tradition: the Seminoles and the commercialization of alligator wrestling / Andrew K. Frank
  • Sacred ground and ground strokes: the development of Native American tennis / Misty May Jackson and Jannus Roossien Cottrell
  • Billy Mills: Olympic champion, Lakota warrior / Andrew McGregor
  • The coldest war: Billy Mills, the 1964 Olympics, and the understandings of Native American Cold War race relations / Dan L. S. Taradash
  • On the offensive: anti-Indian racism in the creation and contestation of the NCAA ban on Native American mascots / C. Richard King.