The Western Writers of America have also honored Full-court Quest as a winner in their nonfiction category, Best Western Nonfiction Contemporary. In April of this year, the Oklahoma Center for the Book announced Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith’s book as the Twentieth Annual Oklahoma Book Awards winner in Nonfiction.
Full-Court Quest: The Girls from Fort Shaw Indian School, Basketball Champions of the World—Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith—University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK
In this account of Montana’s Fort Shaw Indian School girls’ basketball teams, Peavy and Smith provide a detailed account of how ten young women, representing seven Indian nations, became world champions while bringing attention to this new American sport. The authors use the story of the girls’ basketball team as a springboard to talk about tribes and tribal histories, while exploring both the positive and negative aspects of Indian boarding schools. Peavy is a former instructor of Oklahoma Baptist University in Shawnee.
[...] posted about Full-Court Quest on the Reading Oklahoma blog. Also note the Frank Keating children’s book The Trial of Standing Bear won Best Western [...]
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