| Description |
xv, 356 pages ; 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. |
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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.
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Indians as mascots. |
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Sports team mascots -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Sports team mascots -- Social aspects. |
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United States. |
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Sports team mascots. |
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Indians of North America -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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Indians of North America -- Social conditions. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Added Author |
King, C. Richard, 1968-
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Springwood, Charles Fruehling.
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| ISBN |
0803277989 paperback alkaline paper |
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