Fort Shaw Indian School: Basketball Champions (pt. 2)

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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🗓️ 15 November 2017

⏱️ 34 minutes

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In 1904, the Fort Shaw Indian School women’s basketball team spent four months at the St. Louis World’s Fair. The team performed mandolin recitals, literary recitations, demonstrations of gymnastics and calisthenics, and became World Champions.

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0:47.7	We are concluding a two-part episode today in part one of this show
0:52.7	we gave some background about the Fort Shaw Indian School,
0:55.7	which is part of the federally run system of off-reservation boarding schools
1:00.7	that were meant to assimilate in sort of scare quotes,
1:03.7	Native students into white culture, or at least to get Native students
1:08.7	to conform with white culture.
1:10.7	It didn't actually assimilate.
1:12.7	There was still a lot of racism and discrimination after people went through these programs.
1:17.7	We also talked a bit about the history of basketball,
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