Native American Identity in Sports (eBook)

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.

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 InstitutionStacy SewellChapter Three: Amateur Boxing and Assimilation at the Stewart Indian School, Carson City, Nevada, 1935-1948Andrew McGregorChapter Four: Federal Indian Boarding Schools in New MexicoSean SullivanChapter Five: American Indian Collegiate Athletes: Accessing Higher Education Through SportAli ChristieChapter Six: Toka: Empowering Women and Combating Obesity in Tohono O’odham Communities Kathy BrookesChapter Seven: Native American WrestlingFrank 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 TennisMisty May Jackson and Jannus Roossien CottrellChapter Ten: Olympic Champion, Lakota WarriorAndrew 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 MascotsRichard King