To Show What an Indian Can Do
John Bloom
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Description for To Show What an Indian Can Do
paperback. Series: Sport & culture. Num Pages: 192 pages, 20ill. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; JNSV; JNT; YNW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 145 x 10. Weight in Grams: 268.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Series
Sport & culture
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816636525
SKU
V9780816636525
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Ref
99-50
About John Bloom
John Bloom is author of A House of Cards: Baseball Card Collecting and Popular Culture (Minnesota, 1997).
Reviews for To Show What an Indian Can Do
"This book makes it clear that there is no single Native American experience and that boarding schools affected different students differently - sometimes, through athletics, providing a sense of pride." - Library Journal "John Bloom offers a compelling and fresh analysis of an aspect of Indian education that was deeply laden with meaning yet little understood. I strongly recommend this ... Read more