{"id":75625,"date":"2021-12-31T18:04:24","date_gmt":"2021-12-31T23:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=75625"},"modified":"2022-01-04T13:21:12","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T18:21:12","slug":"author-rudy-kelly-reflects-on-significance-of-all-native-basketball-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/author-rudy-kelly-reflects-on-significance-of-all-native-basketball-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"Author Rudy Kelly reflects on significance of All Native Basketball Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Each winter in February or March the Jim Ciccone Civic Centre is host to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenorthernview.com\/news\/shooting-for-nothing-but-net-with-all-native-basketball-tournament-return\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Canada\u2019s largest Indigenous sporting event<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The All Native Basketball Tournament (ANBT) was first held in Prince Rupert in 1959. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The event was created at a time when pot-latches were banned and Indigenous peoples were still being forced into residential schools. But every winter, communities would come together to share food, art and, most significantly, hearty, intense competitive athleticism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The beauty of the tournament is the celebrated unity between Indigenous groups from Alberta, Alaska, and, of course, British Columbia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This event sells out every year and generates about $300,000 in revenue for the All Native Basketball Tournament organization and about $1M in revenue for the town of Prince Rupert.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The history of this tournament and the importance of the event can be felt just by watching the opening ceremonies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A new documentary is slated to release in <a href=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/documentary-basketball-warriors-celebrates-indigenous-autonomy-and-sport\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">early 2022 by filmmaker and UBC Anthropology professor Dr. Charles Menzies online<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The ANBT has a wonderful history since it's beginning, and a Northern BC author and journalist has written a fictional novel about how effective sport and co<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">m<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">m<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">unity can be.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The novel is called\u00a0<em>All Native<\/em> and it was written by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rudykellywriter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rudy Kelly<\/a>, who grew up in the ti<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">me of the tournament's inception.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>CICK News spoke with Kelly about what the tourna<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ment does for indigenous athletes, communities and artists from 1960 to present.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to Pam Haasen's interview with Rudy Kelly below:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each winter in February or March the Jim Ciccone Civic Centre is host to Canada\u2019s largest Indigenous sporting event. The All Native Basketball Tournament (ANBT) was first held in Prince Rupert in 1959. The event was created at a time when pot-latches were banned and Indigenous peoples were still being forced into residential schools. 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