Native athletes in sport & society : a reader /
Native athletes in sport & society : a reader /
Native athletes in sport and society
edited by C. Richard King.
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2005.
- xxxiii, 264 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identities, opportunities, inequities : an introduction / C. Richard King -- Negotiating a Native American identity through sport : assimilation, adaptation, and the role of the trickster / Gerald R. Gems -- "Looking backward" : the life and legend of Louis Francis Sockalexis / Daniel P. Barr -- World champions : the 1904 girls' basketball team from Fort Shaw Indian Boarding School / Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith -- "Winnebago is a great nation!" : George Howard Johnson's life in baseball / Jeffrey Powers-Beck -- The forgotten Irish Indian : ethnicity, class, and football in the life of Tommy Yarr / William J. Bauer, Jr. -- Playing football, playing Indian : a history of the Native Americans who were the NFL's Oorang Indians / Charles Fruehling Springwood -- Women's basketball on the Navajo nation : the Shiprock Cardinals, 1960-1980 / Ann Cummins, Cecelia Anderson and Georgia Briggs -- An examination of sport for aboriginal females on the Six Nations Reserve, 1968-1980 / Vicky Paraschak -- SuAnne Big Crow : her legend and legacy / Ellen J. Staurowsky -- A notable exception : notes on Notah Begay, race, and sports / C. Richard King -- No fall from grace : Grace Thorpe's athlete of the century campaign for her father / John Bloom -- Epilogue / C. Richard King.
0803227531 (cloth : alk. paper) 0803278284 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780803227538 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780803278288 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2005015163
GBA606842 bnb
013360768 Uk
Indian athletes--History.--United States
Indians of North America--Social conditions.
Indians of North America--Sports--History.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identities, opportunities, inequities : an introduction / C. Richard King -- Negotiating a Native American identity through sport : assimilation, adaptation, and the role of the trickster / Gerald R. Gems -- "Looking backward" : the life and legend of Louis Francis Sockalexis / Daniel P. Barr -- World champions : the 1904 girls' basketball team from Fort Shaw Indian Boarding School / Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith -- "Winnebago is a great nation!" : George Howard Johnson's life in baseball / Jeffrey Powers-Beck -- The forgotten Irish Indian : ethnicity, class, and football in the life of Tommy Yarr / William J. Bauer, Jr. -- Playing football, playing Indian : a history of the Native Americans who were the NFL's Oorang Indians / Charles Fruehling Springwood -- Women's basketball on the Navajo nation : the Shiprock Cardinals, 1960-1980 / Ann Cummins, Cecelia Anderson and Georgia Briggs -- An examination of sport for aboriginal females on the Six Nations Reserve, 1968-1980 / Vicky Paraschak -- SuAnne Big Crow : her legend and legacy / Ellen J. Staurowsky -- A notable exception : notes on Notah Begay, race, and sports / C. Richard King -- No fall from grace : Grace Thorpe's athlete of the century campaign for her father / John Bloom -- Epilogue / C. Richard King.
0803227531 (cloth : alk. paper) 0803278284 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780803227538 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780803278288 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2005015163
GBA606842 bnb
013360768 Uk
Indian athletes--History.--United States
Indians of North America--Social conditions.
Indians of North America--Sports--History.