The Indigenous Basketball Team Fighting Gas Sponsorship
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 มิ.ย. 2024
- The All Native Basketball Tournament has been held annually in Prince Rupert, British Columbia for 56 years and attracts up to 1,400 people per game in a community civic centre. The whole week has turned into a celebration of Indigenous sport and culture with a big party element that some people call Second Christmas. But with liquified natural gas companies now sponsoring the tournament some First Nations, led by reigning champions the Skidegate Saints, are bringing active protest to the week’s contest.
VICE Sports discovers why this event is so important to the communities, what makes their style of basketball unique and how politics has started to work its way into the games.
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You guys should take a look at N.A.B.I .. Native American Basketball Invitational an annual basketball tournament for the youth native american basketball players takes place in Arizona.
I could rent a community hall for 700$ for a day, drinks food and parking places like 1000$ tops. And a whole week nothing over 7000$. Who the fuck is in charge really? 250.000$ for a week!? They must be flying people over in 1st class and putting them in Hiltons and Hummer limousines.
Ball is life. This is dope.
It's hilarious that the All-Native basketball tournament is an event where the organizers are embezzling sponsorship dollars which come from LNG companies.
Also, is this Peter Haugen guy even Native?
Chung Ling Soo no he's not and many hate him lool
what was the outcome of the Canadian government on LNG?
........Smoke good lol
Check the books, for as long as that directors been working. Does it add up? Dude's got some greasy palms, either from your books or the big boy's with those tankers. Either way, gotta get that guy outta there.
why do you have to blur out the game if it's being broadcast on TV?
vice probably doesn't have the rights to rebroadcast/distribute the official game footage
$250k cost to run the tournament? Multiple sponsorships including LNG yet the tounament is held in an average gymnasium ... hmmm ... I smell something fishy ... and it aint the local tuna!
trophy is expensive..pff...lol...
True. Maybe cost 10k not 250.000 for one tournament
Rez ball... Damn I wish I could go to this. I'm from Northern Alberta. Nothing like this over here.. just small tournaments. Played through out high-school. Even got scouted for UofA. I wanna be a part of something like this. I've always been one for positive sport competition between our people. If u knew me.. you'd know. I love ball.
Raymo Cruz It's called "All Native Tournament " and Prince Rupert isn't a Rez you douche
Obviously lmao Loser. Get a grip on ur life and quit hating on youtube. Life can't be that hard for u to feel the need to correct ppl on there comments lol Get out there.. live. My comment was positive! If you've ever played ball with the boys.. you'd know we call it rez ball for fun. No pavement.. Strait gravel. Rough and rowdy ball lol
Now get lost you punk.
Lol is your Ass hurt ? getting mad for nothing bruh
Kratos1609 QUIET.☺🇺🇸
thank you for the coverage appreciate it
Oh,basketball is a very popular sport here in brazil also,a sport based in the mesoamerican sport called tlachtl,the mayan ball,for those who dont know yet.
NO LNG
Do one of LNI
together as one
Is the director First Nations?
Hope this story gets big
Still I was there!
i live on Haida Gwaii
It's happening right now in 2019 my two older sisters are playing my mom quite because of two sisters they told her she wasn't good enough
Damn do Marshallese mayday basketball in Oregon or Arkansas
Or hawaii
from a journalistic/news point of view i was really disappointed. this started out w/ so much promise but ended so horribly. how are you not going to have any video footage of the tournament for the 2nd half of the video, or any interviews w/ Indigenous people at the tournament about LNG? *YES*, i saw the part around @9:00 & @10:30 where the tournament directors tell you no more video/interviews about *LNG*/*politics* at the tournament; *however* there are 100s of ways around that, including (but not limited too) :
*1*. *guerilla journalism* (ever heard of it?)
*2*. *undercover journalism* (ever heard of it?)
*3*. *hidden cameras* (ever heard of it?)
*4*. just hand your cameras off too people on the team (or other Indigenous people at the tournament) & have them record for you. you could even print out questions that they could read off & ask people in attendance.
*5*. you could've even still stayed & recorded (discretely) under the guise that you've changed your original story idea & are now just focusing strictly on basketball & how it's bringing people together. at the very least it would've given you more/better footage. watching video of you watching video of a blurred out game is beyond stupid.
don't call yourself a journalist if you can't figure out these basics of getting an important story out too the rest of the world.
“Respect and dignity.” Furthermore: (Vice) (Truth) >-< (Vice) • “Respect and dignity, 2019?”
Just all my cuzzins
thank you for using a song I wrote.
What's it called? The one you wrote
The song is called "Together as one."
I wrote it in 2003
All native tournament is for everyone to go watch the basketball games and you people wanna know why it so much money its because they have to pay for 2 gyms and get all the food and drinks for a week and a lot of people love to go watch basketball games for week and go meet the basketball players. Me and my family love watching the basketball games ❤ and I know lots of people love all native tournament too. Don't get butt hurt 😐 and sorry about my rant but some people needed to know about this
Jodilynn Mason have you ever watched the Mystics my mom played and she quite now my older sisters are playing
The amount of gas huffed at this event must of been huge
Im in this video without my consent consider yourseld sued
No matter where you live
like NABI
Not true native American , you want to see "Rez Ball". You go and see the Southwest, Apaches, Navajos, Hopis, Pubelos, and more.
oh sorry gate keeper of the native americans. lol im sure we were all waiting for your validation.
damn troll bots anyways, fucking russian trolls, you hired by trump or someshit? lol fucking weirdos.
North West Coast is full of "true native Americans" (as you put it) rich in history.
Our People have been here for Thousands of years, and your small idea is merely a millisecond of false information. so go back and think about what buttons you pressed on your keyboard.
histuksithtsawak "We Are All One"
read before you write and you wont look so dumb next time.
can nobody dunk?
lmao
9:00 what is that
Basketball was invented by the mayans a version of basketball soccer
Touching homage watching natives get drunk at the end of it all...
vice reporter had a clear liberal sympathetic agenda to the no-lng natives from the start. Ironic how at about 11:19 team captain says they came to just "play basketball", disregarding politics- lol, your the one team in the entire tourney who made this a political farce in the first place and make up over 80% of the footage in this biased documentary.
Whether you support either side is irrelevant, but misinformation and biased ass reporting doesn't endorse or promote awareness or understanding of the matter. Hopefully others come in with an open and critical mind to this entire matter.
Sure but hearing that idiot with the long hair preach about it them not trying to make it about "politics" when the entire documentary is based on their team- who chose to wear shirts barring a political statement unlike the other teams in this tourney + made up 90% of the content of this video is taking to another level.
At end of day, gentrification, change, and adaptation happens everywhere.
most us natives are liberal whats the problem?
Some of these player's look white
This was pointless LNG was approved good by seafood good by land
Praticaly it has just white guys in this vid, those days praticaly any single one can say who has some nativeamerican decendence.here in brazil,we are a mixblooded people,one in each three brazilians has some kind of indigenous decendence,n im so proud of my mixblooded heritage.
Saints lost lol
Theirs more to life than sports on the rez any rez come on now
Nah
it's all about money and who wants it.hows that capitalism working out for you?
this is cute, vice, but who cares?