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Captain Native America by Chad BrownEagle.

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A Southern Traditional contestant stares dauntlessly into the crowd during the 44th Annual Western Navajo Fair’s Pow Wow in Tuba City, Arizona.

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ESPN’s The five faces of Shoni Schimmel (Umatilla Tribe)

For the ‘Finding her Voice’ picture (second one shown here)

Schimmel is just starting to realize how much weight her voice carries within the Native American community. Over the summer, she and her sister Jude, who also plays for Louisville, and their parents visited the Black Hills of South Dakota to speak with the residents there. When Louisville plays, even on the road, members of the Native American community wait for Shoni and Jude after the game. These fans want their kids to see the opportunities that exist beyond the reservation, beyond the scourge of drugs and alcohol and school truancy that stunts too many young lives.

And Shoni wants to show them how good life can be — if you keep your eyes up. “There’s so much more,” she says. “I want them to know that.”

In the past, Schimmel was reluctant to speak publicly about topics close to her heart, for fear she might turn people off. Now, she is gradually owning and accepting the megaphone that sports has given her. She is one of the most prominent athletes of Native American heritage, one who finds herself at the nexus of a hot-button issue: Should the NFL’s Washington Redskins change their nickname?

Two years ago, maybe even last year, Schimmel would have deflected the question. Not anymore.

"I would change the name of the Redskins mainly for the Native American people as a whole," Schimmel says. "It’s about respect for the Native American race, especially to not promote the racism carried over from the past. It was racist to be called a ‘redskin’ back in the day, so what makes it OK today? There isn’t a team called ‘whiteskins’ or ‘blackskins’ — how would that go over with the world?

"Just because what our people went through was hundreds of years ago doesn’t mean we forgot what happened, forgot what our elders went through. Changing the name would help give us, as Native Americans, the same equality that every other race wants."

More Here: http://espn.go.com/womens-college-basketball/preview2013/story/_/id/9939534/espnw-5-faces-louisville-senior-guard-shoni-schimmel