Canyon Dreams: A Basketball Season on the Navajo Nation Audiobook (Free)

The moving story of a Navajo senior high school basketball team, its members fighting the everyday challenges of high school, adolescence, and family, and the fantastic and unique obstacles facing Local Americans living on reservations.

Deep in the heart of northern Az, in a small and isolated patch of the huge 17.5-million-acre Navajo reservation, sits Chinle High School. Here, basketball is usually passion, transferred from grandparent to mother or father to kid. Rez Ball is a sport for winters where about Canyon Dreams: A Basketball Season for the Navajo Nation dark and cool descend fast and there is little else to do but roam mesa tops, function, and question what the future holds. The town has 4,500 residents and the senior high school market seats 7,000. Fans get thirty, fifty, also eighty miles to see the fast-paced and highly competitive matchups that are more than just games to players and fans.

Celebrated Instances journalist Michael Powell provides us a narrative of triumph and hardship, a moving story in regards to a golf ball team on the Navajo reservation that presents how important sports activities can be to youths in struggling communities, as well as the transcendent magic and unpleasant realities that confront Native Us citizens living on reservations. This reserve details his season-long immersion in the team, town, and lifestyle, in which there have been exhilarating is victorious, crushing deficits, and conversations on long bus rides across the desert about dreams of departing home and the fear of the same.