Wade Davies is professor of Native American studies at the University of Montana, Missoula. His books include Healing Ways: Navajo Health Care in the Twentieth Century; a oeWe Are Still Herea American Indians since 1890, with Peter Iverson; and American Indian Sovereignty and Law: An Annotated Bibliography, with Richmond L. Clow.
A deeply researched and engagingly written dive into the history of
American Indian basketball.--Native American and Indigenous
StudiesAnybody interested in basketball or twentieth-century Native
cultural history should read this fine book.--Montana The Magazine
of Western HistoryUltimately, this book is an important
contribution to the literature on Indigenous sports, with the
potential to become the foremost authority on Indian
basketball.--American Indian Culture and Research Journal
Beautifully written and deeply researched, Native Hoops
shines a bright light on the Native American passion for
basketball, capturing not only the accomplishments of generations
of players on the court but also the special meanings that 'hoop
dreams' held for reservation communities across time and
space.--David Wallace Adams, author Education for
Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience,
1875-1928 and Three Roads to Magdalena: Coming of Age in a
Southwest Borderland, 1890-1990From boarding schools to
barnstorming, college ball to community bonding, Wade Davies'
comprehensive account puts Native hoops and the power of sports at
the center of American Indian--and American--history.--Philip J.
Deloria, author of Indians in Unexpected Places and professor
of Native American and Indigenous studies, Harvard University
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