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Native athletes in sport & society [electronic resource]

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Title Native athletes in sport & society [electronic resource] : a reader / edited by C. Richard King.
Publisher Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press
Creation Date c2005
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content ""Contents""
""Illustrations""
""Acknowledgments""
""Identities, Opportunities, Inequities: An Introduction""
""1. Negotiating a Native American Identity through Sport: Assimilation, Adaptation, and the Role of the Trickster""
""2. “Looking Backward�: The Life and Legend of Louis Francis Sockalexis""
""3. World Champions: The 1904 Girls� Basketball Team from Fort Shaw Indian Boarding School""
""4. “Winnebago Is a Great Nation!�: George Howard Johnson�s Life in Baseball""
""5. The Forgotten Irish Indian: Ethnicity, Class, and Football in the Life of Tommy Yarr""
""6. Playing Football, Playing Indian: A History of the Native Americans Who Were the NFL�s Oorang Indians""""7. Women�s Basketball on the Navajo Nation: The Shiprock Cardinals, 1960-1980""
""8. An Examination of Sport for Aboriginal Females on the Six Nations Reserve, 1968-1980""
""9. SuAnne Big Crow: Her Legend and Legacy""
""10. A Notable Exception: Notes on Notah Begay, Race, and Sports""
""11. No Fall from Grace: Grace Thorpe�s Athlete of the Century Campaign for Her Father""
""Epilogue""
""Contributors""
""Index""
Extent 1 online resource (301 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010712189605171
MARC RECORDS
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