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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext This collection of essays examines how sport has contributed to shaping and expressing Native American identity-from the attempt of the old Indian Schools to "Americanize" Native Americans through sport to the "Indian mascot" controversy and what it says about the broader public view of Native Americans. Additional essays explore the contemporary use of the traditional sport Toka to combat obesity in some Native American communities, the Seminoles' commercialization of alligator wrestling-a "Native" sport that was, in fact, only developed as a sport due to interest from tourists-and much more. The contributions to this volume not only tell the story of Native Americans' participation in the world of sports, but also how Native Americans have changed and enriched the sports world in the process. Inhaltsverzeichnis PrefaceChapter One: Building a Library Collection: Fifty Years of Native American Athletes, Sports and Games on FilmDaisy V. DomínguezChapter Two: Asserting Native American Agency in an Assimilationist Institution Stacy SewellChapter Three: Amateur Boxing and Assimilation at the Stewart Indian School, Carson City, Nevada, 1935-1948 Andrew McGregorChapter Four: Federal Indian Boarding Schools in New Mexico Sean SullivanChapter Five: American Indian Collegiate Athletes: Accessing Higher Education Through Sport Ali ChristieChapter Six: Toka: Empowering Women and Combating Obesity in Tohono O'odham Communities Kathy BrookesChapter Seven: Native American Wrestling Frank SalamoneChapter Eight: Grappling with Tradition: The Seminoles and the Commercialization of Alligator Wrestling Andrew FrankChapter Nine: Sacred Ground and Ground Strokes: the Development of Native American Tennis Misty May Jackson and Jannus Roossien CottrellChapter Ten: Olympic Champion, Lakota Warrior Andrew McGregor and Billy MillsChapter Eleven: The Coldest War: Billy Mills, the 1960 Olympics and the Understandings of Native American Cold War Race Relations Dan TaradashChapter Twelve: On the Offensive: Anti-Indian Racism in the Creation and Contestation of the NCAA Ban on Native American Mascots Richard King...
