1st Edition
Native Americans and Sport in North America Other People's Games
Edited By C Richard King
Copyright 2008
220 Pages
by
Routledge
220 Pages
by
Routledge
221 Pages
by
Routledge
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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, particularly gender, race and heritage and their... Read more
1. Becoming Indian, Erasing History: George Catlin’s Choctaw Ball-Play Paintings 2. The Legend of the Tarahumara: Tourism, Overcivilization, and the White Man’s Indian 3. The Mythical Jim Thorpe: Represntations, Significations, and Implications 4. The Return of the Vanishing Indian: Imaging Indigenous Sport at Century’s End 5. Native Sports at the Washakie Colony of Nothern Utah, 1906-1929 6. High School Sport on the Navajo Nation 7. First Nation Masculinity and its Influence on Canada’s Sport Heritage 8. Interactions Between Mississippi Choctaw and European Americans through the Sport of Toli 9. ‘Native to Native...We’ll Recapture Our Spirits’: The World Indigenous Nations Games and North American Indigenous Games as Cultural Resistance 10. The Return of the Native: Sport and Indigenity in Postmodern Times
Biography
C. King
