Wednesday, April 17, 2013

April 26th, 2013, 6:00-8:00pm


Join us April 26th, 6:00-8:00pm, at the AISCC on 215 North Brooks Street to discuss To Show What an Indian Can Do: Sports at Native American Boarding Schools by John Bloom (University of Minnesota Press 2000). Even if you haven't finished the book, you're welcome to join!

Book info:

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.

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.


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