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Author : C. King
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 18,68 MB
Release : 2007-11-07
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 113676917X
This text offers a considerate and critical account of the Native American sporting experience. It challenges popular images of indigenous athletes and athletics exploring social categories, particularly gender and race and their implications.
Author : C. Richard King
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 727 pages
File Size : 14,37 MB
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1317464028
Offers full coverage of Native American athletes and athletics from historical, cultual and indigenous perspectives, from before European intervention to the 21st century. There are entries devoted to broader cultural themes, and how these affect and are affected by the sport.
Author : George Eisen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 32,54 MB
Release : 1995-10-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0313390215
The editors use the unique lens of the history of sports to examine ethnic experiences in North America since 1840. Comprised of 12 original essays and an Introduction, it chronicles sport as a social institution through which various ethnic and racial groups attempted to find the way to social and psychological acceptance and cultural integration. Included are chapters on Native Americans, Irish-Americans, German-Americans, Canadians, African-Americans, Italian-Americans, Hispanics, and several more, showing how their sports participation also provided these communities with some measure of social mobility, self-esteem, and a shared pride.
Author : C. Richard King
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 34,17 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Indian athletes
ISBN :
Native Americans profiles nearly 200 past and present athletes and key personnel in sports ranging from archery to wrestling. It also includes essays on cultural themes, institutions, teams, and sport history.
Author : Rob Staeger
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 28,52 MB
Release : 2014-09-29
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1422288633
Native Americans loved to play games. From the United States to Mexico to Canada, tribes everywhere played games as part of their rituals, to cure diseases, to make crops grow, or sometimes, just for the pure fun of the sport. This book discusses the types of games played by various tribes in specific regions. It also explains how these games were played, and the significance-religious and social-of each contest.
Author : George Eisen
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,92 MB
Release : 1994-08-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0313288143
The editors use the unique lens of the history of sports to examine ethnic experiences in North America since 1840. Comprised of 12 original essays and an Introduction, it chronicles sport as a social institution through which various ethnic and racial groups attempted to find the way to social and psychological acceptance and cultural integration. Included are chapters on Native Americans, Irish-Americans, German-Americans, Canadians, African-Americans, Italian-Americans, Hispanics, and several more, showing how their sports participation also provided these communities with some measure of social mobility, self-esteem, and a shared pride.
Author : Joseph B. Oxendine
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 30,63 MB
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780803286092
“Neither the highly commercialized nature of professional sports today nor the more casual attitude prevailing in amateur activities captures the essence of Indian sport,” writes Joseph B. Oxendine. Through sport, Indians sought blessings from a higher spirit. Sport that evolved from religious rites retained a spiritual dimension, as seen in the attitude and manner of preparing and participating. In American Indian Sports Heritage, Oxendine discusses the history and importance in everyday life of ball games (especially lacrosse), running, archery, swimming, snow snake, hoop-and-pole, and games of chance. Indians gained nationwide visibility as athletes in baseball and football; the teams at boarding schools such as the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania and the Haskell Institute in Kansas were especially famous. Oxendine describes the apex of Indian sports during the first three decades of the twentieth century and chronicles the decline since. He looks at the career of the legendary Jim Thorpe and provides brief biographies of other Indian athletes before and after 1930.
Author : Wade Davies
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 19,63 MB
Release : 2020-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0700629092
A prominent Navajo educator once told historian Peter Iverson that “the five major sports on the Navajo Nation are basketball, basketball, basketball, basketball, and rodeo.” The Native American passion for basketball extends far beyond the Navajo, whether on reservations or in cities, among the young and the old. Why basketball—a relatively new sport—should hold such a place in Native culture is the question Wade Davies takes up in Native Hoops. Indian basketball was born of hard times and hard places, its evolution traceable back to the boarding schools—or “Indian schools”—of the early twentieth century. Davies describes the ways in which the sport, plied as a tool of social control and cultural integration, was adopted and transformed by Native students for their own purposes, ultimately becoming the “Rez ball” that embodies Native American experience, identity, and community. Native Hoops travels the continent, from Alaska to North Carolina, tying the rise of basketball—and Native sports history—to sweeping educational, economic, social, and demographic trends through the course of the twentieth century. Along the way, the book highlights the toils and triumphs of well-known athletes, like Jim Thorpe and the 1904 Fort Shaw girl’s team, even as it brings to light the remarkable accomplishments of those whom history has, until now, left behind. The first comprehensive history of American Indian basketball, Native Hoops tells a story of hope, achievement, and celebration—a story that reveals the redemptive power of sport and the transcendent spirit of Native culture.
Author : C. Richard King
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 12,35 MB
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780803206304
Studies the controversy over the use of Native American mascots by professional sports, colleges, and high schools, describing the origins and messages conveyed by such mascots as the Atlanta Braves and Florida State Seminoles.
Author : Andrew C. Billings
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 44,22 MB
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0252050843
The issue of Native American mascots in sports raises passions but also a raft of often-unasked questions. Which voices get a hearing in an argument? What meanings do we ascribe to mascots? Who do these Indians and warriors really represent? Andrew C. Billings and Jason Edward Black go beyond the media bluster to reassess the mascot controversy. Their multi-dimensional study delves into the textual, visual, and ritualistic and performative aspects of sports mascots. Their original research, meanwhile, surveys sports fans themselves on their thoughts when a specific mascot faces censure. The result is a book that merges critical-cultural analysis with qualitative data to offer an innovative approach to understanding the camps and fault lines on each side of the issue, the stakes in mascot debates, whether common ground can exist and, if so, how we might find it.