Skip to main content Smithsonian Institution

Native athletes in sport & society : a reader / edited by C. Richard King

Catalog Data

Author:
King, C. Richard 1968-  Search this
Physical description:
xxxiii, 264 p. : ill. ; 22 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
United States
Date:
2005
C2005
Contents:
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
Topic:
Indian athletes--History  Search this
Sports--History  Search this
Social conditions  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_794898