The Native American identity in sports : creating and preserving a culture.
On October 15, 1964 Billy Mills became the only American to win an Olympic Gold Medal for the 10,000 meters. It was but one notable triumph in sports by a Native American. Yet, unlike Mills's achievement, most significant contributions from Native Americans have gone unheralded. From individual...
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Table of Contents:
- Building a Library Collection : Fifty Years of Native American Athletes, Sports, and Games on Film / Daisy V. DomÃnguez
- Asserting Native American Agency in an Assimilationist Institution / Stacy Sewell
- Amateur Boxing and Assimilation at the Stewart Indian School, Carson City, Nevada, 1935-1948 / Andrew McGregor
- Federal Indian Boarding Schools in New Mexico / Sean Sullivar
- American Indian Collegiate Athletes Accessing Higher Education Through Sport / Alisse Ali-Christie
- Toka : Empowering Women and Combating Obesity in Tohono O'odham Communities / Katherine Brooks
- Native American Wrestling / Frank A. Salamone
- Grappling with Tradition : The Seminoles and the Commercialization of Alligator Wrestling / Andrew K. Frank
- Sacred Ground and Ground Strokes : The Development of Native American Tennis / Misty May Jackson and Jannus Roossien Cottrell
- Billy Mills : Olympic Champion, Lakota Warrior / Andrew McGregor
- The Coldest War : Billy Mills, the 1964 Olympics, and the Understandings of Native American Cold War Race Relations / Dan L.S. Taradash
- On the Offensive : Anti-Indian Racism in the Creation and Contestation of the NCAA Ban on Native American Mascots / C. Richard King.