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Audience at "Club Red Radio"

Why We Play Basketball
 (2006, 1 min.) US
Native Lens
Produced by: Longhouse Media, Seattle

A poem by Coeur d'Alene/Spokane writer Sherman Alexie, animated by Seattle area Native youth, gives a nostalgic view of growing up on the rez, Native pride, and, of course, basketball.

Image credit: Audience at Club Red Radio, 2000 Native American Film and Video Festival - photograph by Amalia Córdova, NMAI

Sherman Alexie

Tracy Rector

Annie Silverstein

2006 Native American Film and Video Festival. Schedule at-a-glance

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