Native Americans and Sport in North America
Title | Native Americans and Sport in North America PDF eBook |
Author | C. King |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 221 |
Release | 2007-11-07 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 113676917X |
This text offers a considerate and critical account of the Native American sporting experience. It challenges popular images of indigenous athletes and athletics exploring social categories, particularly gender and race and their implications.
Native Americans in Sports
Title | Native Americans in Sports PDF eBook |
Author | C. Richard King |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total 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.
Ethnicity and Sport in North American History and Culture
Title | Ethnicity and Sport in North American History and Culture PDF eBook |
Author | George Eisen |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | 270 |
Release | 1995-10-30 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0313390215 |
The editors use the unique lens of the history of sports to examine ethnic experiences in North America since 1840. Comprised of 12 original essays and an Introduction, it chronicles sport as a social institution through which various ethnic and racial groups attempted to find the way to social and psychological acceptance and cultural integration. Included are chapters on Native Americans, Irish-Americans, German-Americans, Canadians, African-Americans, Italian-Americans, Hispanics, and several more, showing how their sports participation also provided these communities with some measure of social mobility, self-esteem, and a shared pride.
Native American Sports & Games
Title | Native American Sports & Games PDF eBook |
Author | Rob Staeger |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | 64 |
Release | 2014-09-29 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1422288633 |
Native Americans loved to play games. From the United States to Mexico to Canada, tribes everywhere played games as part of their rituals, to cure diseases, to make crops grow, or sometimes, just for the pure fun of the sport. This book discusses the types of games played by various tribes in specific regions. It also explains how these games were played, and the significance-religious and social-of each contest.
The Native American Identity in Sports
Title | The Native American Identity in Sports PDF eBook |
Author | Frank A. Salamone |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Total 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...
Ethnicity and Sport in North American History and Culture
Title | Ethnicity and Sport in North American History and Culture PDF eBook |
Author | George Eisen |
Publisher | Praeger |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 1994-08-23 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0313288143 |
The editors use the unique lens of the history of sports to examine ethnic experiences in North America since 1840. Comprised of 12 original essays and an Introduction, it chronicles sport as a social institution through which various ethnic and racial groups attempted to find the way to social and psychological acceptance and cultural integration. Included are chapters on Native Americans, Irish-Americans, German-Americans, Canadians, African-Americans, Italian-Americans, Hispanics, and several more, showing how their sports participation also provided these communities with some measure of social mobility, self-esteem, and a shared pride.
Native Americans in Sports: A-L
Title | Native Americans in Sports: A-L PDF eBook |
Author | C. Richard King |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Indian athletes |
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