Chapter 4 Summary

The band arrives at the Spokane Indian Reservation late at night and finds Thomas's father unconscious in the yard. Chess and Checkers help Thomas carry his father inside. Chess and Checkers sit up with Thomas while he tells his father's history. Samuel Builds-the-Fire had been a star basketball player.

Samuel picks up Lester FallsApart in his car, and as the two drive along Samuel asks if Lester has heard that Samuel is about to get married. Lester asks if Samuel wants to have children and Samuel answers that one is already on the way. Officer Wilson, a reservation policeman, pulls over the car, and he is rude to Samuel and Lester. Samuel challenges Wilson and all the other police to a basketball game against him and Lester. Lester reminds Samuel that he cannot play basketball, but Samuel says they can beat all the...