Reading and more teacher and student resources

Background Text Material Reading and more teacher and student resources

Culin, Stewart, Games of the North American Indians. New York: Dover Publications Inc. ISBN: 0-486-23125-9

Dances of the northern plains. (Video). Saskatchewan Indian Cultural Centre (SICC), 1987, 18 min. No order number is required. Video Guide: ISBN 0-920571-02-6.

• (SK) This video shows the diversity in the music, clothing, and dances of the Northern Plains Aboriginal Peoples. Information provided explains the traditional role of dance in their cultures. Dances shown include grass dance, women's traditional dance, older men's traditional dance and fancy dancing.

• detailed analysis of stick work and personal play; progresses to the development of coordinated play among the attack, mid-field, defence units and finally assembles all the various parts into tactics of the unified team.; photographs.

• Examines Indian gaming myths on a continental scale, reveals that gambling was in practice as well as in myth common to nearly all of the Indigenous Peoples of North America. Games and stories were universally part of the sacred lore and rituals of the tribes.

Laubin, Reginald and Gladys Laubin, Indian dances of North America: their importance to Indian life. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press Collection: Civilization of the American Indian series, 1989; v. 141, 538 p.

Mathews, J. R.; Swearingen, and Scott; Rhoades, Sandy; Native American men's & women's dance styles, volume 1 and 2. Tulsa, OK: Full Circle Communications, 1994. Two videocassette (60 min.) Call number: VIDEO 258, 259

• Account of the six-day run commemorating the 300th anniversary of the Pueblo Indian revolt blended with the mysticism of Indian running traditions throughout the Americas.

North American Indian Travelling College, Tewaarathon (Lacrosse) Akwesasne's story of our national game. Cornwall Island, ON: North American Indian Travelling College, 1978.

• A history of lacrosse; Akwesasne and the boundaries; lacrosse stick making in Akwesasne; art of stick making; conversion from field lacrosse to box lacrosse; comparison of contemporary box and field lacrosse; pictures 1880's-1977; minor lacrosse and contemporary lacrosse.

Roxborogh, Henry, Great days in Canadian sport. Toronto: The Ryerson Press, 1957.

• This gives an overview of various sports, rowing, lacrosse, tugs-of- war, marathon running, boxing, track and field athletics, swimming, golf, skating and includes information about leading sports figures.

• Olympiads from 1896 -1968.

Tatge, Catherine; Geiogamah, Hanay; Brockway, Merril (n.d.) The American Indian Dance Theatre: finding the circle. Indian Dance Theatre; Tatge/Lassner Productions, Inc. New York: WNET/thirteen, 1989, Collection: Dance in America, 1 videocassette (59 min.) Call number: VIDEO 254

Vennum, Thomas, Jr., American Indian lacrosse: little brothers of war. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994. ISBN: 1-56098-301-9

• Features rare archival illustrations, account of rules, equipment, techniques, regional difference and legendary underpinnings of the game among the tribes of the Northeast, Southeast, and Great Lakes regions.