Sherman Alexie

Russell Charles Means was an American activist who solely focused on equal rights of Native Americans. He was born in South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Reservation in 1939. He was part of the silent generation, even though he was anything but silent. As Robert (2015) states, “Russell’s commitment to uplift the plight of his people escalated when he served as director of Cleveland’s American Indian Center.” As a director, it was there where he met Dennis Banks, co-founder of the American Indian Movement…

Imagine inhabiting a piece of land long enough for you to live and experience the same culture and life as your ancestors. To inhabit a place that you not only admire but that you also worship, just for it to be taken from you out of nowhere by people who look at the land you call home as a way to get money. Tribe explores history along with anthropology and psychological perspectives. Sebastian Junger examines a sufficient number of concepts related to the term “tribe,” from Native American…

Me was written by author, Sher,man Alexie and was copyrighted in 1997. The storyline of Superman and Me explains Alexia’s life as an Indian boy who overcame various situations in his ability to read and write which made him become who he is today. This essay talks about how this indian boy first learned how to read and what his intelligence as a young indian boy and Alexie teaching ways to learn creative writing to other indian kids. In the first paragraph, Alexie talks about the life as a…

pasts, what makes them unique is how they let what happened to them shape their beliefs and view of the world. In his short stories “The Drug Called Tradition” and “Crazy Horse Dreams” within the novel The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight In Heaven, Alexie explores the idea of how a person's past influences them. Victor, the narrator in both short stories, is a Spokane Indian living on the Spokane reservation. Throughout the novel, readers are shown how Victor’s experiences on the reservation…

The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian is about a fourteen-year-old boy, Junior. In the book, we see how Junior deals with loss, poverty and starting a new life away from the reservation. He explains being poor feels so shitty but, he can't do anything about until he realizes he can be better of the reservation. The history behind the Indian reservations with for the poor “uncivilized Indians”. The poor part about it is true because people we're from the reservation did not have the…

Sherman Alexie’s short story “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven” follows a young Native American man in Seattle. It starts late at night with the narrator walking to a 7-11. When he enters, it is obvious that the cashier is visibly uncomfortable because of the narrator’s appearance. The look given to him reminds the narrator of his white ex-girlfriend, leading to flashbacks of their past fights. After one of their arguments, he dreamed that he and his girlfriend were a minor war…

This story is about a man named Jackson Jackson, who is homeless, after moving to Seattle to go to college and then flunking. It is set in first person perspective, in the life of Jackson, a Spokane Native American who has worked many jobs, married a couple of times, and fathered two or three kids, then went crazy. He is very cultured and has many experiences with other tribes and Indians around the area. The main conflict is Jackson attempting to regain his grandmother’s regalia from a pawn…

Sherman Alexie’s book War Dances is a series of short stories and poems. A collection of soulful, witty, and funny stories and poems. They capture a modern relationship and exceptional change in the pages. They remind us of new beginnings, mistakes, successes, and regrets that fill our life’s on a regular basis. He reminds us deep down what it means to be a human. In Alexie’s story Breaking and Entering, we see many issues. I’d like to draw your attention to how racial relations are portrayed.…

away from the tribe after college despite their constant love and support. She illustrates this as she thinks about her family: “The family and the tribe were helping her, so maybe she was a selfish bitch for questioning the usefulness of tribalism” (Alexie). Her family supports her but she knows that if they knew the truth they would be against it. I feel similar to Corliss in the fact that I feel guilty for leaving my family back in Texas, and moving all the way to Mississippi, but I am more…

All around the world, children are treated differently, in schools and educational settings, because of their culture. In many societies, there is one “main” or “popular” culture, and many “sub” cultures; many authors have written about their accounts of the discrimination, and how they would see it dealt with. In An Indian Father’s Plea by Robert Lake (Medicine Grizzlybear), a concerned father addresses the labeling of his son as a “Slow Learner”, and is treated differently based on the culture…