American Indian Sports Heritage - Softcover

Oxendine, Joseph B.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803286090 ISBN 13: 9780803286092

Verlag: University of Nebraska Press, 2003

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Book by Oxendine Joseph B

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"From scenes of Senecas playing snow snake and Cheyennes competing in chungke, to the exploits of Olympian runner Billy Mills and Yankee pitcher Allie Reynolds, Oxendine has compiled a useful compendium of information on traditional Indian games and the entry of Native Americans into modern collegiate and professional sports, especially during the `heyday' period between 1890 and 1930."-Choice * Choice *

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"Neither the highly commercialized nature of professional sports today nor the more casual attitude prevailing in amateur activities captures the essence of Indian sport," writes Joseph B. Oxendine. Through sport, Indians sought blessings from a higher spirit. Sport that evolved from religious rites retained a spiritual dimension, as seen in the attitude and manner of preparing and participating. In American Indian Sports Heritage, Oxendine discusses the history and importance in everyday life of ball games (especially lacrosse), running, archery, swimming, snow snake, hoop-and-pole, and games of chance. Indians gained nationwide visibility as athletes in baseball and football; the teams at boarding schools such as the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania and the Haskell Institute in Kansas were especially famous. Oxendine describes the apex of Indian sports during the first three decades of the twentieth century and chronicles the decline since. He looks at the career of the legendary Jim Thorpe and provides brief biographies of other Indian athletes before and after 1930.

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• Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0803286090
• ISBN 13: 9780803286092
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 364