Spokane, Washington

The Spokane River in Idaho offers you access to some of the best waves for river surfing, and paddlers, anglers and floaters will all find an appreciation for waves that range anywhere in skill from beginner to expert. Not only are you surfing, you will see some of Idaho's most beautiful sites, and learn about the swims. Whether you want a mellow experience or something more rough, you can find it here. (-- removed HTML --) Lochsa River Surfing (-- removed HTML --) Lochsa's Pipeline is one of the best places to experience for surfing a river in the United States. One river surfing video shows how you're pitted against a dynamic and powerful force that hands you entertaining rides all day. You can surf the next best thing to ocean waves at the Lochsa Pipeline, and you will also snake through the beautiful canyon of Idaho's Lochsa river. Keep in mind, you might to compete with kayakers here as the place has become quite popular, and you have big flows that reach to over 13,000 cfs. That leads to some demanding swims, and you should also watch out for debris and strong currents. This danger becomes particularly pronounced during high water. (-- removed HTML --) Whitewater Park Boise Idaho (-- removed HTML --)…

Throughout the novel, “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian” Sherman Alexie’s really gives an authentic feel to his story as it is written about himself. Written in first person, Alexie portrays his journey through the eyes of Arnold Spirit Jr. Alexie grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation in Willpinit, Washington. Able to describe the depths of these obstacles and wisdom he gained throughout his life on the Reservation. With knowing that these events throughout the book were a…

Throughout this novel alcohol has a major negative impact on Arnold and his family; an impact that costs the ultimate heart wrenching price: death, destruction, and despair. Although the momentous subjects of alcohol and death are made evident from the very start of the novel, the first moment these two topics interact with each other are towards the middle of the book. Located on the Spokane Indian…

Self-identity is a form of individuality that has been molded by the surroundings people enclose themselves with. Human beings are constantly interpreting who they are. The human mind is a stream of thought that is constantly churning in motion, while the evolution of the conscious awareness is a lifetime process of interpreting the world around us. Sherman Alexie, a Spokane-Coeur d'Alene American novelist, exemplifies the conflict of self-identity in his novel Flight, where he seeks to reveal…

In “What You Pawn I Will Redeem” Sherman Alexie gives the reader insight into the struggles of identity endured by contemporary Native Americans. Alexie was born in 1966 and spent his childhood years on the Spokane Indian Reservation in northeast Washington. Before the forced resettlement and assimilation of the Native Americans, the Spokane Tribe was a proud nation that roamed the Pacific Northwest fishing, hunting, and camping. In 1881, President Hayes relocated the tribe to a small…

“Superman and Me”, by Sherman Alexie, is a brilliant autobiography. The essay is about how Alexie learned to read from a Superman comic book at the young age of three. He was a Spokane Indian boy living with his family on the Spokane Indian reservation in Washington state. The essay consists of the hardship that Indian people went through and how they lived. Not only how all the Indians in his area lived but especially his own family. His family was poor, but his parents always seemed to have a…

He uses the paragraph—“a fence around words”(1)—to make sense of himself, his family members, his home, the Spokane Indian reservation and the United States. He links his early literacy to his love for his father, an underemployed “avid reader” who is “one of the few Indians who went to Catholic school on purpose” (1), underscoring his own choice to strive for a better education. The second part of the essay is Alexie’s description of how much of a challenge it was to continue to demand more for…

In the book, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Native American author Sherman Alexie writes about his life on the Spokane Washington Indian Reservation. The main character Arnold Spirit who liked to be called Junior portrays Alexie who grew up on an Indian Reservation. Junior struggled with his identity on a personal level, along with how others view him, and how all non-Indians picture Native Americans. Throughout Junior has added difficulty because Indians are surrounded by…

The Absolute True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie focuses on teenager Arnold Spirit Jr. growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Always considered an outsider, Junior is further ostracized when he decides to leave the reservation to attend the much richer and whiter Reardan high school. Although most of his tribe sees this decision as a betrayal to who he is, Junior hopes to better himself by leaving the reservation. Through this decision he finds new inner strength, better…

of Indian Americans. There were multiple characters within this book that had different lives and scenarios but they all had some correlation to the main point of this book which was to show the struggles, pain, and heartbreak that happens in each of their stories. Two characters that I was intrigued by were in the first two stories in the book. Corliss is a nineteen year old Spokane Indian who had a strong love for books and poetry whereas, Richard was an executive liaison for the majority of…