[<>In the essay “On the Rez” written by Ian Frazier, the author tells us about life near Indian reservations. Life there can be very tough, especially when some of your neighbors treat you without dignity, because of your color and ethnic group. The author then tells us about the various types of racial discrimination that Indians felt towards Indian reservations, but the main story is about how a fourteen-year-old high school student managed to change the hatred that existed around her reservation, the all from a single action that happened in a basketball game. The name of this 14-year-old high school girl who changed everything around her reservation is SuAnne Big Crow. She was only a freshman but she was able to change so much. During the fall of 1988, the Pine Ridge basketball team, which is an all-Indian women's basketball team, went to the town of Lead, South Dakota to play a basketball game against the local high school team. Frazier then tells us that "the place where Pine Ridge was regularly molested was the high school gym in Lead, South Dakota" (592). When the Pine Ridgeteam played against the Lead, the Lead fans started harassing them. They were yelling at the Pine Ridge team with purely anti-Indian phrases and pure hatred. When the Pine Ridge team was about to step onto the basketball court, the tallest and most senior member of the high school, Doni De Cory, was too afraid to step onto the court. But SuAnne Big Crow, who was only a freshman at the time, wasn't afraid—in fact, she had a leap of imagination. A leap of imagination is when you think you have an unsolvable problem, you're about to give up, and then the solution appears. This is what happened to SuAnne, instead of giving... middle of paper......this coup was an act not of war but of peace” (593) and “SuAnne's coup was was an offer and an invitation” (593). What Frazier is telling us is that SuAnne invited Lead's fans to share the culture of the Oglala, she wanted them to be friends of her people and not enemies, and because it was an act of peace, it changed the relationship between the Oglala and the city. of Lead for good and not for evil. This offer of friendship was received by the people of Piombo and they accepted it, and the Oglala and the people of Piombo became good and friendly neighbors. Bottom line, it only takes one person at the right time, in the right place, at the right time to change the future between two peoples, and thanks to the act of sheer, courageous courage that SuAnne Big Crow took when she took that heater off she was in capable of transforming an air full of hatred into goodwill and friendship.