Native Athletes in Sport and Society.
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- 9780803252035
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- GV709.55 -- .N38 2005eb
Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Identities, Opportunities, Inequities: An Introduction -- 1. Negotiating a Native American Identity through Sport: Assimilation, Adaptation, and the Role of the Trickster -- 2. "Looking Backward": The Life and Legend of Louis Francis Sockalexis -- 3. World Champions: The 1904 Girls' Basketball Team from Fort Shaw Indian Boarding School -- 4. "Winnebago Is a Great Nation!": George Howard Johnson's Life in Baseball -- 5. The Forgotten Irish Indian: Ethnicity, Class, and Football in the Life of Tommy Yarr -- 6. Playing Football, Playing Indian: A History of the Native Americans Who Were the NFL's Oorang Indians -- 7. Women's Basketball on the Navajo Nation: The Shiprock Cardinals, 1960-1980 -- 8. An Examination of Sport for Aboriginal Females on the Six Nations Reserve, 1968-1980 -- 9. SuAnne Big Crow: Her Legend and Legacy -- 10. A Notable Exception: Notes on Notah Begay, Race, and Sports -- 11. No Fall from Grace: Grace Thorpe's Athlete of the Century Campaign for Her Father -- Epilogue -- Contributors -- Index.
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