Shadow of a Nation

In the article” Shadow of a Nation" by Gary Smith and Kenneth Jarecke talks about the crow and their love for basketball, Basketball is one of the biggest things on the Crow reservation, but many don’t put there talent to good use. On the reservation there’s a lot of drinking occurring and the education isn’t really good there. On the reservation many people are related to one another some way or another. Many teens get killed in car crashes because of drunk driving. Many people are saying that takes enemy is going to be among the few to succeed. One of his coaches said “He would be the one who escaped, wouldn’t he”. Basketball has taken the place of counting coups and also many of their old traditions. “Some way had to be found to count coups, it was basketball” said a member of the Crow tribe. Jonathan Takes enemy has a love for basketball and he’s one of the best players. The people of the Crow tribe want Takes enemy to wear the traditional dress but he doesn’t want to, but will. "Johnathan dreaded the stares that would be drawn to him if he wore the ritual Indian clothing but he couldn't bear to disappoint his people". Takes enemy is finding it hard to be the head of the Crow Nation and he’s faced to be in two worlds at the sometime he said, “why do I have to carry the hopes of the crows”. Takes enemy did succeed he finished collage, but not in the way his people wanted him to. Basketball is a big thing on the crow reservation but its not always enough to get them somewhere, life on the reservation is difficult explained Gary Smith and Kenneth Jarecke.