To show what an Indian can do : sports at Native American boarding schools / John Bloom.

"The Carlisle Indian School and the Haskell Institute in Kansas were among the many federally operated boarding schools enacting the U.S. government's education policy toward Native Americans from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, one designed to remove children from famili...

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Main Author: Bloom, John, 1962- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2000.
Series:Sport and culture series ; v. 2.
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Table of Contents:
  • Native American athletics and assimilation
  • The struggle over the meaning of sports
  • The 1930s and Pan-Indian pride
  • Female physical fitness, sexuality, and pleasure
  • Narratives of boarding school life.