The Imperial Gridiron: Manhood, Civilization, and Football at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School

by John Bloom, Matthew Bentley, John Bloom, et al.

2023 NASSH Anthologies Book Award Finalist

The Imperial Gridiron examines the competing versions of manhood at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School between 1879 and 1918. Students often arrived at Carlisle already engrained with Indigenous ideals of masculinity. On many occasions these ideals would come into conflict with the models of manhood created by the school's original superintendent, Richard Henry Pratt. Pratt believed that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496213378
• ISBN13: 9781496213372
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"