We Visit a Native American Town Held Together by Basketball Tonight on VICELAND

June 22, 2016, 5:35pm

Watch a preview of the latest ‘VICE World of Sports’ episode above

On tonight’s episode of VICE World of Sports, we go to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota—a community primarily made up of the Lakota Sioux people—to talk about the importance of basketball in a town that’s withstood years of oppression and federal neglect. Check out a preview above, and tune in tonight to catch the full episode on VICELAND.

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