In his book, “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian,” Sherman Alexie discussed the required strategies for overcoming poverty. The book points out that white people have more hope than Native Americans living on the reservations (Alexie, 45). This theme of hope helps outline the characteristics required for a poor individual to stay motivated in the possibility of getting out of poverty. Junior and his sister, Mary seem to have pursued hope with a similar approach; they both moved out of the reservation. Why then is Junior the only one who ended up with the hope of overcoming poverty? Indian reservations are the poorest part of the United States today. A factor to this unchanging living condition is largely due to government policies regarding these areas. Most Indian lands are owned and managed by the U.S. government. This leaves Indians with very few properties of their
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Whitney Mauer. Indian Country Poverty: Place-Based Poverty on American
Indian Territories, 2006–10. [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.ccny-proxy1.libr.ccny.cuny.edu/doi/10.1111/ruso.12130/epdf] This reviewed article by a member of the Rural Sociological Society provides reliable information on place-based poverty in Indian Country, and the influence of federal Indian policy.
David Leonhardt, Amanda Cox, and Claire Cain Miller. “An Atlas of Upward Mobility
Shows Paths Out of Poverty” May 4, 2015. [https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/04/upshot/an-atlas-of-upward-mobility-shows-paths-out-of-poverty-21866021] This article by New York Times reporters provides research analysis on the effects of environment on poverty. This analysis shows that low-income children whose parents moved to better place have higher incomes as adults.
Alexie, Sherman “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian” September 2007.
A story of an aspiring cartoonist Junior who leaves his school on the Spokane Indian reservation to attend an all-white farm town school. This is the primary source for this
Whitney Mauer. Indian Country Poverty: Place-Based Poverty on American
Indian Territories, 2006–10. [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.ccny-proxy1.libr.ccny.cuny.edu/doi/10.1111/ruso.12130/epdf] This reviewed article by a member of the Rural Sociological Society provides reliable information on place-based poverty in Indian Country, and the influence of federal Indian policy.
David Leonhardt, Amanda Cox, and Claire Cain Miller. “An Atlas of Upward Mobility
Shows Paths Out of Poverty” May 4, 2015. [https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/04/upshot/an-atlas-of-upward-mobility-shows-paths-out-of-poverty-21866021] This article by New York Times reporters provides research analysis on the effects of environment on poverty. This analysis shows that low-income children whose parents moved to better place have higher incomes as adults.
Alexie, Sherman “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian” September 2007.
A story of an aspiring cartoonist Junior who leaves his school on the Spokane Indian reservation to attend an all-white farm town school. This is the primary source for this