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  title info:
    title: Native hoops
    sub title: the rise of American Indian basketball, 1895-1970
  name:
    name part: Davies, Wade
    name part: 1969-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ksu
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiv, 390 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: A prominent Navajo educator once told historian Peter Iverson that "the five major sports on the Navajo Nation are basketball, basketball, basketball, basketball and rodeo." The Navajo are far from alone in their passion for the game. Whether on reservations or in cities, Native Americans of all ages tend to congregate around basketball courts. But why is this? Basketball is a relatively new sport, unconnected to older indigenous sporting traditions. It's not a sport that many Native Americans have played professionally, and most non-Natives have no idea that basketball is so widely popular in Indian Country. In Native Hoops, Wade Davies explores this central question of how and why basketball gained such importance among Native Americans. Davies argues that basketball, first introduced in Indian schools as part of an assimilationist agenda, was adopted and adapted by Native students who connected it with older tribal athletic traditions and used it as a way to build community and participate in the rise of mainstream American sports. His study spans the years from Naismith, whose early KU teams regularly played against Haskell, where Phog Allen briefly coached, to the late 1960s, at which point basketball's popularity was firmly established. The conclusion gives an overview of the years since 1970, including the rise of rez ball and the few Native people to play professionally (the most successful of whom are the Schimmel sisters). Surprisingly, this is the first historical overview of Native American basketball, while a few case studies of individual tribes and teams exist, no one has yet taken on the sport as a whole. Deeply researched and filled with long-forgotten names and games as well as famous players like Jim Thorpe, Native Hoops will appeal to all basketball fans.
  note: Wade Davies.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Indians of North America
    topic: Sports
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Basketball
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  classification: E98.G2 D18 2020
  classification: 796.323089/97
  identifier: 9780700629084
  identifier: 0700629084
  identifier: 9780700629091
  identifier: 0700629092
  identifier: 9780700629107
  identifier: 2019025463
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 191204
    record change date: 20200729072426.0
    record identifier: in00004095744