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Hopi Runners - Crossing the Terrain between Indian and American (Hardcover)
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Hopi Runners - Crossing the Terrain between Indian and American (Hardcover)
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In the summer of 1912 Hopi runner Louis Tewanima won silver in the
10,000-meter race at the Stockholm Olympics. In that same year
Tewanima and another champion Hopi runner, Philip Zeyouma, were
soundly defeated by two Hopi elders in a race hosted by members of
the tribe. Long before Hopis won trophy cups or received acclaim in
American newspapers, Hopi clan runners competed against each other
on and below their mesas-and when they won footraces, they received
rain. Hopi Runners provides a window into this venerable tradition
at a time of great consequence for Hopi culture. The book places
Hopi long-distance runners within the larger context of American
sport and identity from the early 1880s to the 1930s, a time when
Hopis competed simultaneously for their tribal communities, Indian
schools, city athletic clubs, the nation, and themselves. Author
Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert brings a Hopi perspective to this
history. His book calls attention to Hopi philosophies of running
that connected the runners to their villages; at the same time it
explores the internal and external forces that strengthened and
strained these cultural ties when Hopis competed in US marathons.
Between 1908 and 1936 Hopi marathon runners such as Tewanima,
Zeyouma, Franklin Suhu, and Harry Chaca navigated among tribal
dynamics, school loyalties, and a country that closely associated
sport with US nationalism. The cultural identity of these runners,
Sakiestewa Gilbert contends, challenged white American perceptions
of modernity, and did so in a way that had national and
international dimensions. This broad perspective linked Hopi
runners to athletes from around the world-including runners from
Japan, Ireland, and Mexico-and thus, Hopi Runners suggests, caused
non-Natives to reevaluate their understandings of sport,
nationhood, and the cultures of American Indian people.
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