To show what an Indian can do [electronic resource] : sports at Native American boarding schools / John Bloom.
2000
E98.G2 B56 2000eb
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Title
To show what an Indian can do [electronic resource] : sports at Native American boarding schools / John Bloom.
Author
Bloom, John, 1962-
ISBN
9780816636518
0816636516 (hc : acid-free paper)
0816636524 (pb : acid-free paper)
0816636516 (hc : acid-free paper)
0816636524 (pb : acid-free paper)
Publication Details
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2000.
Language
English
Description
xxi, 151 p., [16] p. of plates : ill.
Call Number
E98.G2 B56 2000eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
796/.089/97
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."--BOOK JACKET.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-144) and index.
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Access limited to authorized users.
Series
Sport and culture series ; v. 2.
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