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CHIEFS AND CHAMPIONS - ROGER ADOLPH
CHIEFS AND CHAMPIONS - ROGER ADOLPH
Roger Adolph got into a fight playing basketball at the Kamloops Indian Residential School . If you want to fight, he was told, get in the ring. Roger did, but the coach told him that he didn t quite have what it takes. Those words empowered him even more to succeed. He won the Golden Gloves in 1964, 1965, and 1966, in Tacoma, Portland , and Seattle then turned pro. After two and a half years in England , Roger ended his professional boxing career and returned home. A member of the St at imic Nation, from the Xaxli p reserve, near Lillooet , B.C., Chief Roger Adolph has served his community for more almost 20 years.
COMPANY - Tribute Film Productions
PRODUCER - Ken Malenstyn & Annie Frazier Henry
COPYRIGHT - 2004
RUN TIME - 24 minutes
Available in the USA only
Public Performance Rights included with purchase
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