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

Bloom, John, 1962-

To show what an Indian can do : sports at Native American boarding schools / John Bloom. - Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2000. - xxi, 151 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. - Sport and culture series ; v. 2 .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-144) and index.

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.

0816636516 (hc : acidfree paper) 0816636524 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

00008865


Discrimination in sports--History.--United States
Indians of North America--Education.
Indians of North America--Sports.
Off-reservation boarding schools--History.--United States
Sports--History.--United States


United States--Race relations.
United States--Social conditions.

E98.G2 / B56 2000

796/.089/97

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