Presented here with the clarity and charm of a master storyteller

" "Diné"" Perspectives" is unique in bringing such personal journeys to the public eye

Ringing with insight and honesty

and incorporates the last twenty-five years of scholarship

and the unforgettable Arikara woman who becomes obsessed with solving it—an urgent work of literary journalism

Native Hoops: The Rise of American Indian Basketball, 1895-1970 health Presented here with the clarityA prominent Navajo educator once told historian Peter Iverson that "the five major sports on the Navajo Nation are basketball, basketball, basketball, basketball, and rodeo." The Native American passion for basketball extends far beyond the Navajo, whether on reservations or in cities, among the young and the old. Why basketballa relatively new sportshould hold such a place in Native culture is the question Wade Davies takes up in Native Hoops Indian