Sherman Alexie is a prominent Native American writer, filmmaker and poet. ... Alexie's first novel, Reservation Blues, was published in 1995 and is no exception to this. ... Alexie opens each chapter with Blues lyrics, each song lamenting some wretched aspect of Native American life and relating to foregoing chapter. ... By adopting Blues music, Alexie is also acknowledging the shared history of African Americans and Native Americans at the hands of white men. ... Throughout these dreams Alexie portrays the underhand tactics employed by white people in order to slaughter and oppress the ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

As the title of Alexie's tale indicates this story is primarily about a Native tradition, in this case a Spokane tradition involving ritual drug use. ... The exact drug used in Alexie's story is not labeled but is probably from a similar substance. ... Lee indicates on pages 113 through 114 that Thomas-Builds-The-Fire features in other tales by Alexie, which may in fact be Alexie's way of creating a fictional tribal storyteller to carry on the tradition through the written word rather than relying on oral traditions more difficult to continue in modern society. ... This comes t...

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Two of the more prominent Native American authors in the last twenty years are Louise Erdrich and Sherman Alexie. ... However Erdrich and Alexie's depiction of characters is suggestive of the prevailing diversity about the Native American people and their culture. ... Alexie was born on the Spokane Indian Reservation in Washington. ... Some of Alexie's works include The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (1993), Indian Killer (1996), and The Toughest Indian in the World (2000). Alexie's story This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix Arizona provided the basis for the film Smo...

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One movie that is mostly referred to for people studying about Native American Cinema is Smoke Signals. The film is credited be the first movie that has been produced, directed, and even has actors of Native American origin. The creative brains behind such a masterpiece are its director (Chris Eyre...

• Word Count: 622
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate