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Author: C. Richard King
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-03-10
Total Pages: 727
ISBN-13: 1317464028
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffers 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.
Author: C. King
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007-11-07
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 1136769161
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTaking 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,
Author: C. Richard King
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNative Americans profiles nearly 200 past and present athletes and key personnel in sports ranging from archery to wrestling. It also includes essays on cultural themes, institutions, teams, and sport history.
Author: Frank A. Salamone
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 0810887088
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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...
Author: Carol Spindel
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2000-09
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 0814781268
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA topical discussion of the controversial use of American Indian mascots by college-level and professional sports teams.
Author: Joseph B. Oxendine
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 1995-01-01
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9780803286092
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Neither the highly commercialized nature of professional sports today nor the more casual attitude prevailing in amateur activities captures the essence of Indian sport,” writes Joseph B. Oxendine. Through sport, Indians sought blessings from a higher spirit. Sport that evolved from religious rites retained a spiritual dimension, as seen in the attitude and manner of preparing and participating. In American Indian Sports Heritage, Oxendine discusses the history and importance in everyday life of ball games (especially lacrosse), running, archery, swimming, snow snake, hoop-and-pole, and games of chance. Indians gained nationwide visibility as athletes in baseball and football; the teams at boarding schools such as the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania and the Haskell Institute in Kansas were especially famous. Oxendine describes the apex of Indian sports during the first three decades of the twentieth century and chronicles the decline since. He looks at the career of the legendary Jim Thorpe and provides brief biographies of other Indian athletes before and after 1930.
Author: Andrew C. Billings
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2018-10-08
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 0252050843
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe issue of Native American mascots in sports raises passions but also a raft of often-unasked questions. Which voices get a hearing in an argument? What meanings do we ascribe to mascots? Who do these Indians and warriors really represent? Andrew C. Billings and Jason Edward Black go beyond the media bluster to reassess the mascot controversy. Their multi-dimensional study delves into the textual, visual, and ritualistic and performative aspects of sports mascots. Their original research, meanwhile, surveys sports fans themselves on their thoughts when a specific mascot faces censure. The result is a book that merges critical-cultural analysis with qualitative data to offer an innovative approach to understanding the camps and fault lines on each side of the issue, the stakes in mascot debates, whether common ground can exist and, if so, how we might find it.
Author: C. Richard King
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Rob Staeger
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2014-09-29
Total Pages: 64
ISBN-13: 1422288633
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNative 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.
Author: Jennifer Guiliano
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2015-04-02
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 0813572746
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmid controversies surrounding the team mascot and brand of the Washington Redskins in the National Football League and the use of mascots by K–12 schools, Americans demonstrate an expanding sensitivity to the pejorative use of references to Native Americans by sports organizations at all levels. In Indian Spectacle, Jennifer Guiliano exposes the anxiety of American middle-class masculinity in relation to the growing commercialization of collegiate sports and the indiscriminate use of Indian identity as mascots. Indian Spectacle explores the ways in which white, middle-class Americans have consumed narratives of masculinity, race, and collegiate athletics through the lens of Indian-themed athletic identities, mascots, and music. Drawing on a cross-section of American institutions of higher education, Guiliano investigates the role of sports mascots in the big business of twentieth-century American college football in order to connect mascotry to expressions of community identity, individual belonging, stereotyped imagery, and cultural hegemony. Against a backdrop of the current level of the commercialization of collegiate sports—where the collective revenue of the fifteen highest grossing teams in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) has well surpassed one billion dollars—Guiliano recounts the history of the creation and spread of mascots and university identities as something bound up in the spectacle of halftime performance, the growth of collegiate competition, the influence of mass media, and how athletes, coaches, band members, spectators, university alumni, faculty, and administrators, artists, writers, and members of local communities all have contributed to the dissemination of ideas of Indianness that is rarely rooted in native people’s actual lives.
