1. Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie
Furthermore as Alexie later writes that the Trading Post is on a government funded Reservation that supplies "U.S.D.A commodity food" and that there was usually a lack of it ("He had to offer food to his guest, no matter how little he had" and "Then, hungry and tired, he opened his refrigerator for something to eat and discovered that he didn't have any food") the reader can assume that this is symbolistic of the suppression and mistreated of Native Americans by the American Government in that as a colonized group they are given the bare minimum of the lowe...
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