num_pages: 368
description: From journalist Abe Streep the story of coming of age on a reservation in the American West and a team uniting a communityMarch 11 2017 was a night to remember. On that night in front of the hopeful eyes of thousands of friends family members and fans the Arlee Warriors would finally bring the high school basketball state championship title home to Montanas Flathead Indian Reservation. The game would become the stuff of legend with the boys revered as local heroes. The teams place in history was now cemented but for starters Will Mesteth Jr. and Phillip Malatare life would keep moving onsenior year was only just beginning.In Brothers on Three we follow Phil and Will along with their teammates coaches and families as they balance the pressures of adolescence shoulder the dreams of their community and chart their own individual courses for the future. And in doing so a picture emerges of modern Indigenous life and the challenges of growing up on a reservation in contemporary America.Brothers on Three is not simply a story about high school basketball about state championships and a winning team. It is a book about community and it is about boys on the cusp of adulthood finding their way through the intersecting worlds they inhabit and forging their own paths to personhood.
language: English
title: Brothers on Three
publisher: Celadon Books