Tonto

One of the areas the Salado Indians lived in is where the Tonto National Monument.The three main agricultural crops they grew and lived on were called “The Three Sisters”; corn, beans and squash. The corn they ate and grew was not the same kind that Americans eat today.Rather it is multi-colored and smaller. The beans were flat podded climbing beans. And the squash was winter squash where the skin was hardened and the seeds were more mature. The crops were planted close together in mounds…

surprisingly progressive stance on Native American culture; it showed them as a tolerant and respectful peoples, one when juxtaposed with his own, made his own look uncouth and abrasive. In 1993 Sherman Alexie published a book called “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven” an anthology that shone a light into the life of 20th century Native Americans. A few of these stories even featured a perspective on white american culture from a Native American perspective. Franklin’s work speaks in…

he would stand in front of the beer cooler in the Trading Post” (Alexie 89). Basically Victor has money but has to work many jobs after one another just get get a decent amount to stay in good shape. In Conclusion, the book The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven shows many adversities throughout the book for example Victor has done many things along his life which all had bad adversities but ended up facing all of it. In the end everyone will go through some adversity in their…

The crusades were a bloody war between two religions the christians and the muslims in this case it was the christians that were attacking the Muslims. The first couple of crusades were of a religious war but after that it was just a way for people to get a license to kill. So were the crusades positive or negative. I think that the crusades were more negative than positive and the reasons are clear why they are They widened the gap between Muslims and christians along with even more hatred…

Many individuals in the United States believe that we live in a post-racial world and that racism and discrimination are part of the past. They believe that everyone coexists in a world where segregation and inequalities no longer exist based on race (Dyer 2004). This, I don’t consider it to be true. Currently, many inequalities based on race are still present and a minority of the population in this case, rich white men, still control many aspects of life such as politics, education, and the…

Dr. Randolph’s class was a celebration of literature and discourse. The texts selected by Dr. Randolph helped me explore my own identity. Also, Dr. Randolph assigned a variety of classic poems and modern literary texts for the purpose of promoting discourse in small groups. By promoting discourse, students are not just reading a text. Instead, Dr. Randolph encouraged analysis of the texts on a personal and societal level through class discussion and writing assignments. Dr. Randolph repeatedly…

problems he and his wife already have, but as a writer Alexie uses this humor with purpose. In Joseph L. Coulombe’s article, “The Approximate Size of His Favorite Humor: Sherman Alexie's Comic Connections and Disconnections in "The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven" originally published in American Indian Quarterly, he points out that how the use of humor is a “coping mechanism”(1). Jimmy makes fun of his condition by describing his largest and most favorite tumor as a baseball which…

Sherman Alexie is in his middle age and a Native American poet, novelist, performer and filmmaker; although, Much of his writing draws on his experiences as a Native American with ancestry of several tribes, growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. He lives in Seattle, Washington. Early years Sherman Alexie was born on October 7, 1966 on the Spokane reservation in Wellpinit, Washington. His alcoholic father was largely absent during his childhood and his mother worked at several jobs…

of the semester have demonstrated both the lack of heritage and the importance of heritage. In Toni Morrison’s novel “Song of Solomon,” Milkman Dead finds his own identity by discovering his heritage. In Sherman Alexie’s novel “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven,” the characters struggle with their Native American heritage, whether to embrace it or create a new life. In the novel the “Song of Solomon,” Milkman desires to learn about his past. Milkman is able to do this by connecting…

poverty , injustice , etc that are common problems in Native Americans. He published his first collection of poetry In 1992 " The Business of Fancydancing: Stories and Viviane Poems" . One year later his work propose was out ,"The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven" in 1993 which won a PEN/Hemingway Award for Best First Book of Fiction.Sherman writes followed up with his first novel, Reservation Blues (1995) and a second, Indian Killer (1996), both award winners. Sherman Alexie is also a…