Native Americans in Sports
Title | Native Americans in Sports PDF eBook |
Author | C. Richard King |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 727 |
Release | 2015-03-10 |
Genre | 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.
Native Americans and Sport in North America
Title | Native Americans and Sport in North America PDF eBook |
Author | C. King |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 384 |
Release | 2007-11-07 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 1136769161 |
Taking examples from the United States and Canada, this comprehensive text offers compassionate and critical accounts of the Native American sporting experience. It challenges popular images of indigenous athletes and athletics; it explores Native American participation in and appropriation of EuroAmerican sports; and it unpacks social categories,
Native Americans in Sports: M-L
Title | Native Americans in Sports: M-L PDF eBook |
Author | C. Richard King |
Publisher | |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | 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.
The Native American Identity in Sports
Title | The Native American Identity in Sports PDF eBook |
Author | Frank A. Salamone |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 221 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0810887088 |
This collection of essays examines how sport has contributed to shaping and expressing Native American identity-from the attempt of the old Indian Schools to "Americanize" Native Americans through sport to the "Indian mascot" controversy and what it says about the broader publ...
Dancing at Halftime
Title | Dancing at Halftime PDF eBook |
Author | Carol Spindel |
Publisher | NYU Press |
Pages | 308 |
Release | 2000-09 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0814781268 |
A topical discussion of the controversial use of American Indian mascots by college-level and professional sports teams.
American Indian Sports Heritage
Title | American Indian Sports Heritage PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph B. Oxendine |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Pages | 370 |
Release | 1995-01-01 |
Genre | 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.
Mascot Nation
Title | Mascot Nation PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew C. Billings |
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
Pages | 340 |
Release | 2018-10-08 |
Genre | 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.