"I knew my Aunt Genie only through newspaper clips. From time to time, the newspaper from my grandmother's tribe, Wotanin Wowapi, would publish old photos. Once there was a picture of Aunt Genie in a buckskin dress along with seven other young women. Another time it was a picture of women in what looked like sailor suits, but was a basketball uniform. The caption would credit the Fort Peck Tribal Archives -- and then offer few details, other than this was a girls' basketball team from a government boarding school not long after the turn of the century.

Then those details are clues, the kind of clues that reveal stories."

Get the Story:
Mark Trahant: At turn of century, Aunt Genie had game (The Seattle Post-Intelligencer 6/6)

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