Scarecrow Press
Pages: 222
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Trim: 6½ x 9¼
978-0-8108-8708-4 • Hardback • November 2012 • $107.00 • (£82.00)
978-1-4422-5578-4 • Paperback • July 2015 • $50.00 • (£38.00)
978-0-8108-8709-1 • eBook • November 2012 • $47.00 • (£36.00)
Frank A. Salamone is emeritus professor and past Chair of Sociology and Anthropology at Iona College, New Rochelle, NY. He has authored or edited more than 10 books and over 100 articles. His recent books include The Lucy Memorial Freed Slaves’ Home, with Virginia Salamone, The Italians of Rochester, NY: 1940-1860, and The Culture of Jazz: Jazz as Critical Culture.
Preface
Chapter One: Building a Library Collection: Fifty Years of Native American Athletes, Sports and Games on Film
Daisy V. Domínguez
Chapter Two: Asserting Native American Agency in an Assimilationist Institution
Stacy Sewell
Chapter Three: Amateur Boxing and Assimilation at the Stewart Indian School, Carson City, Nevada, 1935-1948
Andrew McGregor
Chapter Four: Federal Indian Boarding Schools in New Mexico
Sean Sullivan
Chapter Five: American Indian Collegiate Athletes: Accessing Higher Education Through Sport
Ali Christie
Chapter Six: Toka: Empowering Women and Combating Obesity in Tohono O’odham Communities
Kathy Brookes
Chapter Seven: Native American Wrestling
Frank Salamone
Chapter Eight: Grappling with Tradition: The Seminoles and the Commercialization of Alligator Wrestling
Andrew Frank
Chapter Nine: Sacred Ground and Ground Strokes: the Development of Native American Tennis
Misty May Jackson and Jannus Roossien Cottrell
Chapter Ten: Olympic Champion, Lakota Warrior
Andrew McGregor and Billy Mills
Chapter Eleven: The Coldest War: Billy Mills, the 1960 Olympics and the Understandings of Native American Cold War Race Relations
Dan Taradash
Chapter Twelve: On the Offensive: Anti-Indian Racism in the Creation and Contestation of the NCAA Ban on Native American Mascots
Richard King
This work provides a unique look at the impact Native Americans have had on American sports and explores the reasons why many of these achievements have gone unheralded in the sports history books. The work also explores sports that are special to the Native American culture, such as Native American tennis and the Seminole's custom of alligator wrestling, as well as the debate over using Native Americans images as sports mascots. Edited by a professor emeritus of sociology and anthropology at Iona College, New York, the volume takes an all encompassing look at how Native Americans are represented in the world of sports.
— American Reference Books Annual
The theme of identity and the tensions between American Indian and American identities runs throughout these 12 essays. While sport was presented as a means of assimilation, as it was for many other cultures, in many instances it served to articulate a more powerful Native American character. As a whole, the collection covers a wide range of sports and experiences, from the early-20th-century boarding schools to current disputes over the persistence of Native American mascots. The contributions represent a wide range of disciplines and approaches, including history, sociology, and cultural anthropology, to provide greater insight into the ways in which sport has been used by Native Americans. Perhaps most notable is the variety of sports considered in the collection. While boxing and even lacrosse were seen as ways of demonstrating manliness, basketball, tennis, track and field, and other endeavors were also important as American Indians struggled to find a balance between competing identities. Although each essay offers a brief exploration, the complete volume highlights Native peoples' important contribution to the world of sports. Summing Up: Recommended.
— Choice Reviews