SYMHC Classics: Fort Shaw Indian School, Basketball Champions (Pt. 2)
Stuff You Missed in History Class
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🗓️ 10 July 2021
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Part two of our Fort Shaw classic covers the four months the Fort Shaw Indian School women's basketball team spent at the 1904 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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| 0:00.0 | Happy Saturday! |
| 0:03.4 | Today's classic is the second part of our two-parter on the Fort Shaw Indian School Girls |
| 0:08.0 | Basketball team, which originally came out November 15, 2017. |
| 0:13.0 | Part 1 was last week's Saturday Classic. |
| 0:18.1 | Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History class, a production of I Heart Radio. |
| 0:28.5 | Hello and welcome to the podcast. |
| 0:30.6 | I'm Tracy V. Wilson and I'm Holly Fry. |
| 0:34.0 | We are concluding a two-part episode today. |
| 0:36.8 | In part 1 of this show, we gave some background about the Fort Shaw Indian School, which is |
| 0:42.5 | part of the federally-run system of off-reservation boarding schools that were meant to assimilate |
| 0:48.0 | in sort of scare quotes, Native students into white culture or at least to get Native |
| 0:54.2 | students to conform with white culture. |
| 0:56.8 | We didn't actually assimilate. |
| 0:59.4 | There was still a lot of racism and discrimination after people went through these programs. |
| 1:03.9 | We also talked a bit about the history of basketball and how girls basketball at Fort |
| 1:09.1 | Shaw quickly became the best basketball team in Montana. |
| 1:13.6 | Today we are picking up with the St. Louis World's Fair, where the team spent about four |
| 1:18.0 | months in 1904 becoming the world champions there. |
| 1:22.2 | As was the case in the previous episode, we are still getting into some pretty abhorrent |
| 1:25.7 | racism here and there is also a brief mention of animal cruelty. |
| 1:31.3 | In 1903, Fort Shaw Indian School was, as we mentioned at the end of the previous episode, |
| 1:37.6 | invited to participate in the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, also known as the Louisiana |
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