The Real All Americans: The Team That Changed a Game, a People, a Nation

The Real All Americans: The Team That Changed a Game, a People, a NationA truly inspirational story about a Native American football team that is as much about football as Lance Armstrong's book was about a bike. If you'd guess that Yale or Harvard ruled the college gridiron in 1911 and 1912, you'd be wrong. The most popular team belonged to an institution called the Carlisle Indian Industrial School. Its story begins with Lt. Col. Richard Henry Pratt, a fierce abolitionist who believed that Native Americans deserved a

and as friend to the late Keewaydinoquay

responding

On a cloudless summer night

and reveals the critical role that culture plays in connecting the two

When Nipishish is sent to a strange town to live with a white family and attend high school

was enrolled at the White Earth Reservation

the teens navigate the challenges of growing up in an urban landscape - they're so close

fills it with three thousand gallons of water

and most loyal of American soldiers during World War II

she felt a powerful connection to the openness of the Plains

and reaching out across history to protect the people

like all legends