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To show what an Indian can do : sports at Native American boarding schools / John Bloom.

Bloom, John, 1962- (Author).

Summary:

"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."--Jacket.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0816636516
  • ISBN: 9780816636518
  • ISBN: 0816636524
  • ISBN: 9780816636525
  • Physical Description: xxi, 151 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, �2000.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-144) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Native American athletics and assimilation -- The struggle over the meaning of sports -- The 1930s and Pan-Indian pride -- Female physical fitness, sexuality, and pleasure -- Narratives of boarding school life.
Subject:
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.
Indians of North America > United States > Residential schools > History.

Available copies

  • 2 of 2 copies available at Northwest Indian College.

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  • 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Lummi Library E 98 .G2 B56 2000 254885 Stacks Reshelving -
Lummi Library E 98 .G2 B56 2000 257637 Stacks Reshelving -

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