As an 18-year-old college dropout in 2007, Curtis Osceola felt stuck. School hadn’t lived up to the hype, his parents were on the brink of a divorce and he’d ended up with probation and drug counseling after getting caught with marijuana.

Osceola thought back to his childhood years with Garrett Anderson at the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida, and how former chairman and leading medicine man Sonny Billie would tell other kids they “should all be like Garrett and Curtis” — cousins who loved each other like brothers.