Native Americans and Sport in North America: Other People's Games

Taking examples from the United States and Canada, this comprehensive text offers compassionate and critical accounts of the Native American sporting experience. It challenges popular images of indigenous athletes and athletics; it explores Native American participation in and appropriation of EuroAmerican sports; and it unpacks social categories, particularly gender, race and heritage and their implications for understanding Native Americans and sport in North America. Contributors discuss the interplay of power and possibility, difference and identity, representation and remembrance that have shaped the means and meanings of American Indians playing sport. Included in this book are discussions on: continuity and change, the place of sport in the survival and adaptation of indigenous beliefs and behaviours the play of power and the power of play within indigenous communities, intercultural spaces, and American popular culture the contradictions andconditions of possibilities sport has offered American Indians the politics and poetics of identity the axes of difference structuring the indigenous sporting experience, particularly, gender, race, and nationalism representations and stagings of Indianness in the context of sport.

(1)Introduction: Other People's Games: Native Americans and Sport in North America. C. Richard King. (2) Nature's Most Beautiful Models': George Catlin's Chocraw Ball Paintings and the Politics of Indian Removal. Frank H. Goodyear. (3) The Legend of the Tarahumara: Tourism, Overcivilisation and the White Man's Indian. Darcy C Plymire. (4) The Mythical Jim Thorpe: Re/presenting the Twentieth Century American Indian. Mark Rubinfeld. (5) Getting Beyond Imagery: The Challenges of Reading Narratives About American Indian Athletes. Ellen J. Staurowsky. (6) The St Francis Mission Indians and the National Interscholastic Catholic Basketball tournament, 1924-1941. Wade Davies and Rich Clow. (7) Diamonds, Ovals, and Rings: Northwestern Shoshone Sports at the Washakie colony of Northern Utah, 1903-1929. Matthew E. Kreitzer. (8) Using the Master's Tools: Resisisting Colonization through Colonial Sports. Eric D. Anderson. (9) Historical Interpretations of First Nations Masculinity and its Inlfuence on Canada's Sport Heritage. Michael A. Robidoux. (10) Interactions Between the Mississippi Choctaw and the European Americans Through the Sport of Toli. John Richard Stepp. (11) Native to Native We'll Recapture Our Spirits': The World Indiginous Nations Games and North American Indiginous Nations games as Cultural Resistance. Janice Forsyth and Kevin B. Wamsley. (12) On being a Warrior: Race Gender and American Indian Imagery in Sport. C. Richard King.