The Native American Identity in Sports by Salamone Frank A.;

Author:Salamone, Frank A.;
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2012-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

A 2001 article by Selena Roberts identifies other obstacles that hinder American Indian students from excelling in elite colleges and professional sports. Roberts noted that prejudice and misunderstanding, lack of opportunity, the unwillingness to recruit from reservations, the isolation of reservations, and the inability of American Indian students to adjust to white institutions and expectations were all factors keeping American Indian students from being involved in higher education institutions. Given the literature focusing on the hurdles that American Indian students face entering and graduating college and the low percentage of American Indian students and American Indian student-athletes, I agree with Roberts’s assessment. As a result, Roberts indicates,

Only 310 American Indians were among the 70,856 college athletes in Division I who received athletic aid in the 1998–1999 school year. . . . While American Indians make up about 1 per cent of the country’s population, according to the 2000 census, they account for only four-tenths of a percent of the scholarship athletes at the major college level.[47]

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