He said he had never visited the Northwest. “It was a long day yesterday flying,” Osceola said. Marl Osceola, who came to watch his three sons play for the Seminoles, said he flew in from Hollywood, Florida, arriving in Spokane at 11 p.m. Teams from the Spokane Tribe of Indians, Colville Tribes, Comanche Nation and Navajo Nation were among the various tribes represented.įord said a team from the Seneca Nation of Indians drove all the way from New York, while the Seminole Tribe flew in from Florida.įans and teams waiting to play packed the perimeter of the gym and bleachers between the courts. The sacred hoop returned in the tournament’s opening ceremony Friday afternoon as Redbone gathered the hundreds of players into a circle at The Warehouse.ĭuring the ceremony, teams walked the perimeter of the gym with a player from each team holding its tribe flag as they were introduced and drums banged in the background. “The vision of what I had was bringing all these nations back together again, which in Indian ways, we call like a sacred hoop,” Redbone said. Prior to retiring Spring Fever, Redbone, of Wellpinit, Washington, said he had a vision of gathering tribes together in Spokane, similar to how tribes long ago gathered by the “big falls,” now Riverfront Park, for salmon. Other tournaments, like Spring Fever, which Redbone hosted for 25 years before retiring it, allow tribes to join forces for the best possible team. Jerry Ford Redbone, tournament director, said there are other native basketball tournaments, but this is the only one that puts tribe against tribe. “A lot of players come from far away and they want to win bad and there’s a lot of money on the line, and there’s a lot of prizes and pride,” said Kamiakin Wheeler, a 43-year-old Yakama Nation player. The fourth annual Battle of the Nations tipped off Friday and runs through Sunday, as 45 teams from tribes as far away as Florida battle in a men’s 5-on-5, full-court tournament at The Warehouse. Evidence abounds that the effort to isolate Putin has failed and that sanctions haven’t stopped Russia, thanks to its oil and gas exports.Tribe pride is on the line this weekend in Spokane as Native American groups from across the nation take to the hardwood for what the tournament director called the largest native basketball tournament in the country. Here’s what a train station full of goodbyes looked like last year.ĭeepening global divides: President Biden has trumpeted the reinvigorated Western alliance forged during the war as a “global coalition,” but a closer look suggests the world is far from united on issues raised by the Ukraine war. Follow the 600-mile front line between Ukrainian and Russian forces and take a look at where the fighting has been concentrated.Ī year of living apart: Russia’s invasion, coupled with Ukraine’s martial law preventing fighting-age men from leaving the country, has forced agonizing decisions for millions of Ukrainian families about how to balance safety, duty and love, with once-intertwined lives having become unrecognizable. Scroll through portraits of Ukrainians reflecting on a year of loss, resilience and fear.īattle of attrition: Over the past year, the war has morphed from a multi-front invasion that included Kyiv in the north to a conflict of attrition largely concentrated along an expanse of territory in the east and south. They have learned to survive and support each other under extreme circumstances, in bomb shelters and hospitals, destroyed apartment complexes and ruined marketplaces. Portraits of Ukraine: Every Ukrainian’s life has changed since Russia launched its full-scale invasion one year ago - in ways both big and small.
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