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Native Athletes in Sport and Society.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2004Copyright date: ©2005Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (301 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780803252035
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Native Athletes in Sport and SocietyDDC classification:
  • 796/.089/97
LOC classification:
  • GV709.55 -- .N38 2005eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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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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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