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Book SynopsisThough many Americans might be aware of Olympian and football Hall of Famer Jim Thorpe or of Navajo golfer Notah Begay, few know of the fundamental role that Native athletes have played in modern sports. This book highlights the accomplishments of Indigenous athletes in the United States and Canada.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Identities, Opportunities, Inequities (C. Richard King); 1. Negotiating a Native American Identity through Sport: Assimilation, Adaptation, and the Role of the Trickster (Gerald Gems); 2. "Looking Backward:" The Life and Legend of Louis Francis Sockalexis (Daniel Barr); 3. "Simply Marvelous": The 1904 Girls' Basketball Team from Fort Shaw Indian Boarding School (Laura Peavy and Ursula Smith); 4. "Winnebago is a Great Nation!" George Howard Johnson's Life in Baseball; (Jeff Powers-Beck); 5. The Forgotten Irish-Indian: Ethnicity, Class and Football in the Life of Thomas Yarr; (William Bauer, Jr.); 6. Playing Football, Playing Indian: An History of the Native Americans Who Were the NFL's Oorang Indians (Charles Fruehling Springwood); 7. Women's Basketball on the Navajo Nation: The Shiprock Cardinals, 1960-1980; (Ann Cummins, Cecilia Anderson, and Georgia Briggs); 8. An Examination of Sport for Aboriginal Females on the Six Nations Reserve, 1968 to 1980 (Vicky Paraschak); 9. Suanne Big Crow: Her Legend and Legacy (Ellen J. Staurowsky); 10. A Notable Exception: Notes on Notah Begay, Race, and Sports (C. Richard King); 11. No Fall from Grace: Grace Thorpe's Athlete of the Century Campaign for Her Father (John Bloom); Epilogue (C. Richard King)
