April movies: Chiefs

Enhance your visit to the Heard Museum by viewing films about Native life, culture and art. In the Monte Vista Room.

Tuesday, April 7, 1 p.m. – Chiefs (2003, 87 min.) This documentary follows a team of American Indian teens from Wyoming Indian High School in the town of Ethete on the Wind River Indian Reservation as they strive to recapture the state basketball championship while battling against poverty, alcoholism, drugs and racism. After graduation, the young men’s next challenge is to convert the pride and success they experience on the basketball court into success in their adult lives, including higher education and employment.