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“Medicine Ball” follows Native college athletes Lexus Redthunder and Leroy Staples-Fairbanks IV as they navigate basketball and college life at the University of Minnesota Morris, located on a former Native boarding school site. Their journeys reveal how basketball became a source of resilience, hope, and cultural pride in Native communities.

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Through basketball, Native athletes face their campus’s boarding school legacy.
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Medicine Ball
Medicine Ball
Through basketball, Native athletes face their campus’s boarding school legacy.
Episode: S2026 E1 | 56:15
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Medicine Ball
Medicine Ball
Through basketball, Native athletes face their campus’s boarding school legacy.
Episode: S2026 E1 | 56:15