The Crow Tribe of Montana hopes that promoting basketball, one of the most popular activities on the reservation, will lead more students into higher education.

The tribe recently opened the $10 million Health & Wellness Center. It's being leased to the Little Big Horn College, which recently joined the National Junior College Athletic Association and has awarded $56,000 in scholarships to promising athletes.

"We've beaten Cree, Assiniboine, Cheyenne, Blackfeet and Lakota Sioux. It feels good to our community to win these games," Athalia Morrison, a tribal member who just graduated from LBHC, told The Wall Street Journal.

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A Tribe Turns to Its National Pastime (The Wall Street Journal 5/15)