To show what an Indian can do : sports at Native American boarding schools

The Resource To show what an Indian can do : sports at Native American boarding schools

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To show what an Indian can do : sports at Native American boarding schools

Title remainder

sports at Native American boarding schools

Statement of responsibility

John Bloom

Language

eng

Summary

"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 familiar surroundings and impose mainstream American culture upon them. To Show What an Indian Can Do explores the history of sports programs at these institutions and, drawing on the recollections of former students, describes the importance of competitive sports in their lives. Author John Bloom focuses on the male and female students who did not typically go on to greater athletic glory but who found in sports something otherwise denied them by the boarding school program: a sense of community, accomplishment, and dignity."--Jacket

Cataloging source

COCUF

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

illustrations
plates

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index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries
bibliography

Series statement

Sport and culture series

Series volume

v. 2

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