Description
Sally Jenkins chronicles the remarkable story of the Carlisle Indian School football team, a group of Native American students who challenged Ivy League powerhouses and helped transform American football. At the heart of the narrative is Lt. Col. Richard Henry Pratt’s controversial effort to assimilate Native Americans, set against the profound loss of culture and identity that accompanied it. Through the team’s struggle and triumph, the book explores race, education, ambition, cultural survival, and the complicated origins of a beloved American game. Vividly researched and deeply moving, it offers both an inspiring sports history and a searching examination of America’s treatment of its first peoples.
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paperback
Broadway
Published Aug 12, 2008
352 pages
ISBN: 9780767926249
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Details
First Published
2007
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Real All Americans by Sally Jenkins.