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Canyon Dreams

A Basketball Season on the Navajo Nation

by Michael Powell
Darrell Dennis
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The inspiration for the Netflix film Rez Ball—produced by Lebron James
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.

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    November 19, 2019

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      • ISBN: 9780593146576
      • File size: 222948 KB
      • Duration: 07:44:28

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Darrell Dennis narrates this dive into "rez ball," basketball set in the Arizona desert. His tone is comforting as he describes the challenges facing many of the young Navajo players on the Chinle High School team. He alters his voice a bit when a player or character is speaking--providing differentiation, rather than imitation. If a coach is giving a pep talk, he ramps up his energy. But mostly he stays calm and steady throughout this portrait of a culture, set against the backdrop of a basketball season. As the team fights to win the coveted state title, listeners will gain knowledge of a people and their tribulations. M.B. © AudioFile 2020, Portland, Maine

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