To Show What an Indian Can Do: Sports at Native American Boarding Schools

by John Bloom and John Bloom

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816636516
• ISBN13: 9780816636518
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.2"