Sherman Alexie is an American writer who grown up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. All credit go to Wikipedia, he did have an easy childhood. He was nicknamed of “Globe” because his head was larger than usual due to the hydrocephalus as a child (Wikipedia). He wrote a lot of books such as: The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, and The Toughest Indian in the World. In The Toughest Indian in the World, we find in some interesting, inspirational, and short stories. Through these stories, he’s showing out his cultural mindset and concept of racism, colorism, and origins. In Assimilation, one of the book’s stories, Alexie shows how an Indian lady was trying to dissimulate who she truly was by assimilation. And how her
