Canyon Dreams A Basketball Season on the Navajo Nation
eAudio - 2019
The moving story of a Navajo high school basketball team, its members struggling with the everyday challenges of high school, adolescence, and family, and the great and unique obstacles facing Native Americans living on reservations. Deep in the heart of northern Arizona, in a small and isolated patch of the vast 17.5-million-acre Navajo reservation, sits Chinle High School. Here, basketball is passion, passed from grandparent to parent to child. Rez Ball is a sport for winters where dark and cold descend fast and there is little else to do but roam mesa tops, work, and wonder what the future holds. The town has 4,500 residents and the high school arena seats 7,000. Fans drive thirty, fifty, even eighty miles to see the fast-paced and hig...hly competitive matchups that are more than just games to players and fans. Celebrated Times journalist Michael Powell brings us a narrative of triumph and hardship, a moving story about a basketball...
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File Size | 223 GB |
Parts | 8 |
ISBN | 9780593146576 |
Release Date | 11/19/2019 |
OverDrive Listen audiobook | |
File Size | 223 GB |
ISBN | 9780593146576 |
Release Date | 11/19/2019 |