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Carregando... Canyon Dreams: A Basketball Season on the Navajo Nationde Michael Powell
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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.-- Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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The author does a fantastic job, interviewing a wide range of people. Aunties, uncles, those clinging to the old ways and those trying to embrace the new. Poverty, bad habits, lack of opportunity keep many of these people at or below the poverty level. Despite this, the reservation is their home and many who leave return and some never leave at all. Cultural practices are noted, the games with possible curses, between the Apache and Navajo are outworldly. Superstition rules!
Also part memoir as the author chronices his own experiences in Chile, a place and a part of the cou try he came to fully embrace. So, this can't and shouldn't be written off as just another sports book. It is indeed, so much more. ( )