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No Country for Old Ballers

By Adam Sings In The Timber

MISSOULA, Mont.—Andrew Calf Robe has been playing in his favorite Indian basketball tournament for so many years that he's witnessed a generational change on the court.

"You get to see when you first start out all the old ballers," Calf Robe of Browning, Mont., said during last weekend's 16th Annual Kyi-Yo Basketball Classic here at the University of Montana, "and then all of a sudden you're one of the old ballers, and you get to see these young guys coming up.

"It's great to see that, because they need it," Calf Robe said. Basketball "gives them something to do."

Native American basketball players from all over the the Plains and Northwest region played in the tournament, which raises money for Kyi-Yo's annual student-run powwow in April. Kyi-Yo is the University of Montana's Native American student association.

Seventeen men's teams and six women's teams competed for first- and second-place prizes. First-place winners received letterman jackets with Kyi-Yo's logo embroidered on them.

Adam Sings In The Timber, Crow, is a senior majoring in photojournalism at the University of Montana in Missoula. A graduate of the Freedom Forum's American Indian Journalism Institute, Sings In The Timber has had photo internships at The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, Va., and the Billings Gazette and Great Falls Tribune in Montana. In October 2007, he attended the Eddie Adams Workshop, an intense four-day gathering of top photojournalism professionals in New York City and won a scholarship as the top student.

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