Counting Coup: A True Story of Basketball and Honor on the Little Big Horn

“The social dilemmas confronted by present-day Native People are revealed on this journalistic take a look at a highschool women’ basketball group in Crow, Montana” (Kirkus).

In Counting Coup, award-winning journalist and sports activities author Larry Colton delves into the world of Montana’s Crow Indians, and introduces teenage basketball star Sharon LaForge, a descendant of one among George Armstrong Custer’s Indian scouts. The title comes from the Native American custom of accomplishing glory by “counting coup”—touching one’s enemy on the sphere of battle and dwelling to inform the story. Greater than only a sports activities story or a portrait of youth, Counting Coup is a sobering exposé of a uncared for group’s resilience within the face of battle.
Alongside the banks of the Little Large Horn, Indians and whites stay in age-old battle. Colton delves into Sharon’s life and reveals us the realities of the reservation, the shattered households, the bitter tribal politics, and a folks’s unrelenting concern that their youngsters are destined for heartbreak. 

In opposition to this backdrop stands Sharon, who carries her folks’s hopes and frustrations on her shoulders as she battles her opponents on and off the court docket. A fiery, undaunted competitor, she has the talent to dominate a highschool sport and earn a university scholarship. But getting to school appears past Sharon’s imaginative and prescient, obscured by the day by day challenges of getting by way of the season.

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000QCTN00
Writer ‏ : ‎ Grand Central Publishing
Accessibility ‏ : ‎ Study extra
Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 1, 2000
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File measurement ‏ : ‎ 2.9 MB
Display Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Phrase Clever ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print size ‏ : ‎ 458 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0446931274
Web page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 960L