Canyon Dreams A Basketball Season On The Navajo Nation

Description: 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 highly 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 team on a Navajo reservation that shows how important sports can be to youths in struggling communities and the transcendent magic and painful realities that confront Native Americans living on reservations. This book details his season - long immersion in the team town and culture in which there were exhilarating wins crushing losses and conversations on long bus rides across the desert about dreams of leaving home and the fear of the same.
Title: Canyon Dreams A Basketball Season On The Navajo Nation
Barcode: 9780525534686
Publication Date: 6/29/2021