The chapter starts out with Thomas tell his story, about how Thomas had to cope with his father drinking alcohol and we also learn that Chess and Checkers had to deal with their father drinking alcohol as well. The story also goes back and forth with the basketball game that was going on between Samuel and the other Indians, which is quite interesting because the game would go very close, and you would be stuck wondering who could win the game. The band also receives a letter to play in Seattle, and Checkers decides not to go with the band to Seattle, but she would be sharing the prize money. While the band is in Seattle, Checkers gets very close to the priest-Father Arnold. Coyote Springs wins the thousand dollar prize money, but the community starts disapproving of them. The council of the Spokane reservation writes a letter in which how they (the band members) are not “traditional” and they are getting “out of control” and this is after they have won from Seattle. Even the community does not like the fact that their people are moving up, and the Thomas, Victor, and the bands knows this they still decide to take up the offer that they receive for New York.
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