The moving story of the Navajo high school basketball team, its members fighting the everyday challenges of high school, adolescence, and family, and the fantastic and unique obstacles facing Native Americans living on reservations.

Deep in the heart of northern Az, in a little and isolated patch of the vast 17.5-million-acre Navajo reservation, sits Chinle SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL. Here, basketball is passion, transferred from grandparent to parent to child. Rez Ball is a sport for winters where about Canyon Dreams: A Golf ball Season for the Navajo Country dark and cold descend fast and there is little else to accomplish but roam mesa tops, work, and question what the near future holds. The city offers 4,500 citizens and the senior high school world seats 7,000. Supporters travel thirty, fifty, even eighty mls to start to see the fast-paced and highly competitive matchups that are more than just video games to players and fans.

Celebrated Moments journalist Michael Powell provides us a narrative of triumph and hardship, a moving story in regards to a golf ball team on a Navajo reservation that shows how important sports activities is usually to youths in struggling communities, and the transcendent magic and unpleasant realities that confront Native People in america living on reservations. This reserve information his season-long immersion in the team, town, and lifestyle, in which there were exhilarating wins, crushing deficits, and interactions on long bus rides across the desert about dreams of departing home and the fear of the same.