Money Pitcher: Chief Bender and the Tragedy of Indian Assimilation
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- Synopsis
- As Bender's story is told, the U.S. government's attempts to eradicate Native American culture is also chronicled. "Bender, a standout pitcher for the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, became the great hope of Native American athletes. Just six years before his arrival at the central Pennsylvania boarding school, the federal government, fresh from its final military encounter with Indians at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, instigated an aggressive assimilation process designed to extinguish Indian culture. Baseball was an important vehicle in that process. The game was taught at all government-sponsored Indian boarding schools as a means of cultivating Anglo-American values of teamwork, sportsmanship, and individual achievement. Those who excelled at the sport could enter the white mainstream through semipro and minor league ball." And, while "assimilating" they had to endure the blatant racism prevalent in American sports and sportswriting.
- Copyright:
- 2006
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 64 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780271028620
- Publisher:
- N/A
- Date of Addition:
- 11/10/06
- Copyrighted By:
- The Pennsylvania State University Press
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Sports, Biographies and Memoirs, Social Studies
- Submitted By:
- Sister M. Dolores Dean
- Proofread By:
- Lena
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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