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    In Sherman Alexie’s story “This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix‚ Arizona”‚ he explores the challenging life of two Native American Indian men named Victor and Thomas on the reservation. The story communicates the childhood memories‚ relationships‚ and cultural aspects of Thomas and Victor’s life in Spokane (an Indian Reservation). In this story‚ Victor appeared to be mentally depressed because his father had died just after he lost his job. Although Victor’s father left Victor at a very young age

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    In the text “Green World” by Sherman Alexie‚ windmills were built outside of a small town on a Native American reservation. The windmills were responsible for killing birds and the tribe hired a man to go out to the twelve windmills and pick up the mangled bodies of the birds. At first‚ the man could not complete his job without being physically sick at the sight of the disfigured bodies‚ but as the job progresses‚ the man becomes desensitized to the situation. One day‚ an elderly Native American

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    A father influences who his child becomes through his words and actions. In The Light In The Forest‚ author Conrad Richter pens the story of True Son‚ a white boy captured by Indians at age four and raised in the culture for eleven years. Throughout the novel‚ True Son identified three contrasting fathers‚ who each affected him differently. To begin‚ True Son’s Indian father‚ Cuyloga‚ taught True Son to tolerate pain. At one point the novel states‚ “In winter he would sit in the icy river until

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    Dakota Dreams is a novel by James Bennett. The story follows the life of a lonely fifteen year old foster child named Floyd Rayfield. Since Floyd has no parents he had to live in multiple foster or group homes for most of his life. One day Floyd had a dream in which he saw himself as a Dakota warrior‚ a fierce warrior in Indian tribes. When Floyd awoke from his dream‚ he was certain that becoming a Dakota Warrior was his destiny. Floyd undergoes a name change to Charley Black Crow and‚ he learns

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    Reel Injun Learning from this documentary that Hollywood has made over 4000 films about Native people. Hearing this made me feel caught off guard and kind of a surprise because I did not know that these Indigenous people made that many already. Because of these movies over one hundred years of movies defining Indians are seen by the world based on how Hollywood try to be like us Native Americans in these films. As I continue watching the film I feel anger building up inside of me due to how disrespectful

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    Chief process of beginning big again and finally being able to recover from the control of Big Nurse and society is shown though the progress of his perception of the size of himself. Mcmurphy helps Chief regain his size by helping him break free from the control Big Nurse has over him. Chief may be physically big‚ but he feels and portrays himself as if he is “small”‚ which reflects on how much the Big Nurse and society drained him of his confidence‚ beliefs‚ motivation‚ and his indian culture

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    "What
You
Pawn
I
Will
Redeem"
is
the
story
of
a
financially
strapped
 Spokane
Indian
man
faced
with
the
task
of
coming
up
with
nearly
one
 thousand
dollars
in
twenty-four
hours
in
order
to
reclaim
his
grandmother’s
 stolen
powwow
attire
from
a
pawnshop.
The
story
takes
place
in
Seattle
 over
the
course
of
one
day‚
and
is
narrated
by
the
central
character‚
 Jackson
Jackson. Jackson
introduces
himself
to
the
reader
by
telling
of
his
move
twenty-three
 years
ago
from
Spokane
to
Seattle
to
go
to
college

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    The story What You Pawn I Will Redeem is about a homeless Native American Man named Jackson who goes on a metaphorical quest to get back his grandmother’s regalia which he has stumbled upon in a pawn shop. The pawn shop owner says he can sell Jackson the $1000 regalia at a discounted price of $999. This is representative of how America treats Native American. This regalia was your grandmothers and was stolen. Well I bought is for $1000. Here’s what I can do for you. I’ll give you a discount of one

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    The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian‚ is about a 14 year old boy named Arnold Spirit Jr. He calls himself Junior. Junior lives on Wellpinit Indian Reservation. He is sick and tired of his poor and boring life at the Rez‚ as he calls it. He wants to do something with his life‚ not just be an “Indian boy”. Junior lives at an Indian reservation. The people who lives there are very poor‚ and Junior tells us in the book that it isn’t much to do there besides drinking. Junior gets bullied a

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    discussion‚ but in the end “Mr. P” tells junior “Son…You’re going to find more and more hope the farther and farther you walk away from this sad‚ sad‚ sad reservation” (Alexie‚ 2007). Junior should not have to transfer schools and go through hell for being Indian. Throughout “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” (Alexie‚ 2007)‚ Junior is ridiculed and neglected for being Native American not only by his peers‚ but his teachers as well. There is a quote that makes one quiver and is much

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