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To show what an Indian can do : sports at Native American boarding schools / John Bloom.

Author: Bloom, John, 1962-

Imprint:Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2000.

Descriptionxxi, 151 p., [16] p. of plates : illus. ; 24 cm.

Note:Native American athletics and assimilation. - The struggle over the meaning of sports. - The 1930s and Pan-Indian pride. - Female physical fitness, sexuality, and pleasure. - Narratives of boarding school life.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-144) and index.

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Author:
Bloom, John, 1962-
Series Added Entry
Sport and culture series ; v. 2
Subject:
Indians of North America -- Sports.
Indians of North America -- Education.
Sports -- United States -- History.
Off-reservation boarding schools -- United States -- History.
Discrimination in sports -- United States -- History.
United States -- Race relations.
United States -- Social conditions.