Playing the white man's games
By: Don Marks
Publisher: J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing
Published: 2014
Place of publication: [Winnipeg, Manitoba]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9781927922019
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Indian athletes; Biography; Native athletes; Sportifs autochtones; Biographies
Description: "Playing the White Man's Games tells the extraordinary tales of Native American athletes who overcame tremendous obstacles to dominate the NFL, CFL, PGA, Olympic Games, NHL and professional wrestling"--Publisher.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Chapter 1 The World's Greatest Athlete; title: Anytime, Anywhere (Jim Thorpe); title: Chapter 2 "Waaahoooooooooo!" (Ed "Wahoo" McDaniel); title: Chapter 3 A Formula for Success (Billy Mills); title: Chapter 4 "Almost There" (Notah Begay III); title: Chapter 5 "The House that Jack Built" (Jack Jacobs); title: Chapter 6 Longboat Left a Long Trail on the Land (Tom Longboat); title: Chapter 7 Hockey First for First Nations (George Armstrong); title: Chapter 8 Mascots; title: Chapter 9 Playing Our Own Games; title: Chapter 10 "The First 500 Years are Always the Toughest"; title: Chapter 11 "Too Many Stars and Not Enough Space"; title: Index.