To Show What an Indian Can Do - Sports at Native American Boarding Schools (Paperback, New Ed)

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.

General

Imprint:	University of Minnesota Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Sport and Culture
Release date:	March 2005
First published:	March 2005
Authors:	John Bloom
Dimensions:	229 x 149 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	176
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-8166-3652-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > Teaching skills & techniques Books > Social sciences > Education > Teaching of specific groups > Teaching of ethnic minorities Books > Children's & Educational > Leisure interests, hobbies & sport > Sports & outdoor recreation > General Books > Children's Fiction & Fun Promotions
LSN:	0-8166-3652-4
Barcode:	9780816636525

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