Team spirits: the Native American mascots controversy

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Contents: Acknowledgments Foreword - Vine Deloria Jr. Introduction: Imagined Indians, Social Identities, and Activism - C. Richard King and Charles Fruehling Springwood Part 1. Inventions 1. Chief Bill Orange and the Saltine Warrior: A Cultural History of Symbols and Imagery at Syracuse University - Donald M. Fisher 2. Becoming the Indians: Fashioning Arkansas State University's Indians - Mary Landreth 3. Wennebojo Meets the Mascot: A Trickster's View of the Central Michigan University Mascot/Logo - Richard Clark Eckert 4. Sockalexis and the Making of the Myth at the Core of Cleveland's Indian Image - Ellen J. Staurowsky Part 2. Whiteness 5. The Fighting Braves of Michigamua: Adopting the Visage of American Warriors in the Halls of Academia - Patrick Russell LeBeau 6. The Best Offense . . Dissociation, Desire, and the Defense of the Florida State University Seminoles - C. Richard King and Charles Fruehling Springwood 7. At Home in Illinois: Presence of Chief Illiniwek, Absence of Native Americans - David Prochaska Part 3. Activism 8. Fighting Name-Calling: Challenging Redskins in Court - Suzan Shown Harjo 9. Last of the Mohicans, Braves, and Warriors: The End of American Mascots in Los Angeles Public Schools - Ann Marie (Amber) Machamer 10. Escaping the Tyranny of the Majority: A Case Study of Mascot Change - Laurel R. Davis and Malvina T. Rau Part 4. Interventions 11. In Whose Honor?, Mascots, and the Media - Jay Rosenstein 12. School Teachers and Mascots: Challenging Contradictions - Cornel D. Pewewardy Part 5. Complications 13. Uneasy Indians: Creating and Contesting Native American Mascots at Marquette University - C. Richard King 14. Playing and Fighting (for) Mascots: Reading the Complications of Native American and Euro-American Alliances - Charles Fruehling Springwood Epilogue: Closing Arguments, Opening Dialogues - Charles Fruehling Springwood and C. Richard King Contributors Index