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"Shoot Minnie shoot!", [the story of the 1904 Fort Shaw Indian girls, basketball's first world champions]

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"Shoot Minnie shoot!", [the story of the 1904 Fort Shaw Indian girls, basketball's first world champions]
Language
eng
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Main title
"Shoot Minnie shoot!"
Medium
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Sub title
[the story of the 1904 Fort Shaw Indian girls, basketball's first world champions]
Summary
In 1903, among the three hundred Indian children living at a boarding school in a remote valley in Montana were a handful of teenage girls. They quickly learned to play basketball and resoundingly crushed all opponents, including men's and women's university teams. In less than one year after first seeing a basketball, they were crowned the First World Champions of Basketball at St. Louis' World's Fair. This is the story of that team, seen through the eyes of star player, Minnie Burton
Target audience
adult
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Story of the 1904 Fort Shaw Indian girls, basketball's first world champions
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