Summary

In Chapter 6, "Never Do It for Yourself," the Warriors played a game "somewhere outside Seattle" (61). Because Phil’s parents could not attend, his "older sisters, Whitney and Morgan, accompanied him" (61). Afterwards, his sisters told Streep they were frustrated by how he was expected to play.

Streep describes the history and life of "a young Blackfeet teacher named Josephine Langley" (62). After being forced into a rehabilitation school for Natives, Langley went on to teach basketball "at the Fort Shaw Industrial Indian Boarding School" (62). Although the "Indian boarding-school era was brutal," basketball offered the girls a chance to express themselves (63). Streep describes the Fort Shaw team in detail. Over the years that followed, basketball became increasingly important to Native communities. Yet it still remained difficult for male Native players to secure placements on college teams. Many Native players also felt that they had to change...