Eagle Blue: A Team, a Tribe, and a High School Basketball Season in Arctic Alaska
By Michael D'Orso.
Description
n the tradition of Friday Night Lights, an extraordinary journey into the basketball-crazed culture of remote Arctic Alaska.The village of Fort Yukon sits eight miles above the Arctic Circle, deep in Alaska's "bush" country. The six hundred men, women and children who live there―almost all of them Athabascan Gwich'in Natives―have little to cheer for. Their traditional Indian ways of life are rapidly vanishing in the face of a modern culture that is closing in on all sides, threatening to destroy their community and their identity. The one source of pride they can count o...
ISBN(s)
1582346232, 9781582346236
