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Rezballers and Skate Elders : Joyful Futures in Indian Country.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Kamper, David.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Indigenous peoples--Sports--Noth America.
Indigenous peoples.
Indigenous peoples--Noth America--Social life and customs.
Basketball--Social aspects--Noth America.
Basketball.
Skateboarding--Social aspects--Noth America.
Skateboarding.
Intergenerational relations--Noth America.
Intergenerational relations.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (273 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2025.
Summary:
Ethnographer and American Indian studies scholar David Kamper examines how Indigenous youth and adults are making basketball and skateboarding meaningful to their communities by sustaining the transmission of intergenerational knowledge and combatting intergenerational trauma.
Contents:
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Ball Is Life
2. Some Days It's a Good Day to Play Basketball
3. Rezball, the Anti-Funeral
4. Rezball and Gender
5. Skate (Rez) Life
6. Skater Legends of the Rez
7. Skate Elders
8. Native Women and Nonbinary Skaters
Epilogue
Notes
Works Cited
Index.
Notes:
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
ISBN:
1-4962-4330-7
1-4962-4329-3
OCLC:
1522767881

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