To Show What an Indian Can Do: Sports at Native American Boarding Schools - Couverture rigide

Bloom, John

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0816636516 ISBN 13 : 9780816636518

Editeur : University of Minnesota Press, 2000

Synopsis

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 on 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

John Bloom is author of A House of Cards: Baseball Card Collecting and Popular Culture (Minnesota, 1997).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Minnesota Press
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0816636516
• ISBN 13: 9780816636518
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 176
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible