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Title Team spirits : the Native American mascots controversy / edited by C. Richard King and Charles Fruehling Springwood ; foreword by Vine Deloria, Jr.

Imprint Lincoln, Neb. : University of Nebraska Press, c2001.

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 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  796.08997 T222    ---  Available
Description xv, 356 p. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction, Imagined Indians, social identities, and activism / C. Richard King and Charles Fruehling Springwood -- Chief Bill Orange and the Saltine Warrior : a cultural history of Indian symbols and imagery at Syracuse University / Donald M. Fisher -- Becoming the Indians : fashioning Arkansas State University's Indians / Mary Landreth -- Wennebojo meets the mascot : a trickster's view of the Central Michigan University mascot/logo / Richard Clark Eckert -- Sockalexis and the making of the myth at the core of Cleveland's "Indian" image / Ellen J. Staurowsky -- Fighting Braves of Michigamua : adopting the visage of American Indian warriors in the halls of academia / Patrick Russell LeBeau -- Best offense ... : dissociation, desire, and the defense of the Florida State University Seminoles / C. Richard King and Charles Fruehling Springwood -- At home in Illinois : presence of Chief Illiniwek, absence of Native Americans / David Prochaska -- Fighting name-calling : challenging "Redskins" in court / Suzan Shown Harjo -- Last of the Mohicans, braves, and warriors : the end of American Indian mascots in Los Angeles public schools / Ann Marie (Amber) Machamer -- Escaping the tyranny of the majority : a case study of mascot change / Laurel R. Davis and Malvina T. Rau.
In whose honor? : mascots and the media / Jay Rosenstein -- Educators and mascots : challenging contradictions / Cornel D. Pewewardy -- Uneasy Indians : creating and contesting Native American mascots at Marquette University / C. Richard King -- Playing Indian and fighting (for) mascots : reading the complications of Native American and Euro-American alliances / Charles Fruehling Springwood -- Epilogue, Closing arguments, opening dialogues / Charles Fruehling Springwood and C. Richard King.
Subject Indians as mascots.
Sports team mascots -- Social aspects.
Indians of North America -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Added Author King, C. Richard, 1968-
Springwood, Charles Fruehling.
ISBN 0803277989 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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