02575nam a2200421Ia 4500 ebr10151303 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 000328s2000 mnuaf sb s001 0 eng d 00008865 9780816636518 0816636516 (hc : acid-free paper) 0816636524 (pb : acid-free paper) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)191818424 E98.G2 B56 2000eb 796/.089/97 21 Bloom, John, 1962- To show what an Indian can do [electronic resource] : sports at Native American boarding schools / John Bloom. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2000. xxi, 151 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. Sport and culture series ; v. 2 Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-144) and index. "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 upon 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 greater athletic glory but who found in sports something otherwise denied them by the boarding school program: a sense of community, accomplishment, and dignity."--BOOK JACKET. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 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. Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. Sport and culture series ; v. 2. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10151303 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 95224 95224