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Learning Material Bibliography

Web sites:

Games of the Plains Cree

Curriculum unit on traditional games of the plains Cree (based on virtual exhibition located at http://collections.ic.gc.ca/games/).

http://collections.ic.gc.ca/sifc/trad.intro.htm

The Learning Circle

Educational activities created by Indian and Northern Affairs Canada for teachers (in PDF format). One part of the learning material focuses on traditional sports and games.

http://www.ainc-inac.gc.ca/ks/12010_e.html

Books on Games:

Elementary Level:

Baldwin, Gordon C. (1969) Games of the American Indian. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Inc.

Blood, Charles L. (1981).American Indian Games and Crafts. Toronto: Franklin Watts. ISBN: 0-531-04304-5

Carter, William Harry (1974). North American Indian Games. London, ON: Namind Printers and Publishers.

Macfalan, Allan and Paulette (1958). Handbook of American Indian Games. New York: Dover Publications. ISBN: 0-486-24837-2 (pbk)

Secondary Level:

Culin, Stewart. Games of the North American Indians. New York: Dover Publications Inc. ISGN: 0-486-23125-9
- Extensive information on games.

Gabriel, Katheryn (1996). Gambler Way: Indian Gaming in Mythology, History and Archaeology in North America. Boulder, CO: Johnson Printing.
ISBN: 1-55566-160-2

• 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.

Nabokov, Peter (1981). Indian Running. Santa Barbara, CA: Capra Press.
ISBN: 0-88496-162-1

• 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 (1978). Tewaarathon (Lacrosse) Akwesasne's Story of Our National Game. Cornwall Island, ON: North American Indian Travelling College.

• 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.

Evans, G. Heberton G. and Anderson, Robert E. (1966). Lacrosse. New York: A.S Barnes and Co., Inc.

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

Vennum, Thomas, Jrl. (1994). American Indian Lacrosse: Little Brothers of War. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press. 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.

Roxborogh, Henry ( 1957). Great Days in Canadian Sport. Toronto: The Ryerson Press.

• gives 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.

Roxborough, Henry (1963). Canada at the Olympics. Toronto: The Ryerson Press.
ISBN: 7700 0287 0

• Olympiads from 1896 -1968.

Prepared by B. Wabie, Woodland Cutural Centre, Brantford, ON