American Indian Lacrosse

Little Brother of War
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8018-8764-2
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 376 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 710 g

To understand the aboriginal roots of lacrosse, one must enter a world of spiritual belief and magic where players sewed inchworms into the innards of lacrosse balls and medicine men gazed at miniature lacrosse sticks to predict future events, where bits of bat wings were twisted into the stick's netting, and where famous players were—and are still—buried with their sticks. Here Thomas Vennum brings this world to life.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vennum, Thomas Jr.

Vennum, Thomas

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Sport Ballsportarten Lacrosse
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Indigene Völker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Preface
Prologue Carrier Dome, Syracuse University, 21 May 1989
1. Huron Country, 1637
2. "How the Bat Got Its Wings"
3. Iroquois Country, 1794
4. The Bishop's Crook and Other Misnomers
5. Ballistas and Cannonshot
6. Fort Michilimackinac, 1763
7. A Stake in the Game
8. The Overhead Flourish" and "The Pounce"
9. Fort Gibson, Indian Territory, 1834
10. "The Indian Gallery"
11. Breechclouts and Bare Feet
12. Cherokee Reservation
13. Little Brother of War
14. "It's a Toss-up"
15. Montreal, 1866
16. "Lo, the Poor Mohawk"
Epilogue Niagara-Wheatfield High School, 1991
Appendix A Lacrosse Legends
Appendix B Indiana Lacrosse Stick Making
Notes
Bibliographic Note
Bibliography
Illustration Credits
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Vennum, Thomas
Thomas Vennum, senior ethnomusicologist emeritus at the Center for Folklife Programs and Cultural Studies, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., is the author of Lacrosse Legends of the First Americans. Retired and living in Tucson, Arizona, he continues research among Indian tribes in Sonora, Mexico, specifically the Seri.