Sherman Alexie
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English
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A killer has Seattle on edge. The serial murderer has been dubbed "the Indian Killer" because he scalps his victims and adorns their bodies with owl feathers. As the city consumes itself in a nightmare frenzy of racial tension, a possible suspect emerges: John Smith. An Indian raised by whites, John is lost between cultures. He fights for a sense of belonging that may never be hisbut has his alienation made him angry enough to kill? Alexie...
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English
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Nine poignant stories about Native Americans who, like all Americans, find themselves at personal and cultural crossroads, faced with heartrending, tragic, sometimes wondrous moments of being that test their loyalties, their capacities, and their notions of who they are and who they love. Driven by a naked candor that cuts to the heart of the human experience, these stories -- even as they make us laugh -- shed light on what happens when we grow into...
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English
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When legendary bluesman Robert Johnson appears on the Spokane Indian reservation, in flight from the devil, he passes his enchanted instrument to Thomas-Builds-the-Fire, and a magical odyssey begins that takes them from reservation bars, to Seattle, and ultimately to Manhattan.
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
1994.
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English
Description
In this darkly comic short story collection, Sherman Alexie, a Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian, brilliantly weaves memory, fantasy, and stark realism to paint a complex, grimly ironic portrait of life in and around the Spoke Indian Reservation. These 22 interlinked tales are narrated by characters raised on humiliation and government-issue cheese, and yet are filled with passion and affection, myth and dream. There is Victor, who as a nine-year-old crawled...
7) Blasphemy
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Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Combines fifteen of the author's classic short stories with fifteen new stories in an anthology that features tales involving donkey basketball leagues, lethal wind turbines, and marriage.
10) Smoke signals
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Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
Victor and Thomas have lived their entire lives on the same Indian Reservation but couldn't be more different. When Victor is called away, it's Thomas who comes up with the money to pay for his trip. The catch: Victor has to take Thomas along for the ride.
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Wellspring Media
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
Former Spokane Reservation best friends, Seymour and Aristotle have taken different paths when they are brought together for the funeral of an old friend. Both went off to college; one is now a successful poet, the other returned home embittered. Tensions and resentments flare as they meet again.
13) The exiles
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Milestone Film & Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
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English
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"The Exiles" of the title are displaced Native Americans, living in late 1950s Los Angeles on Bunker Hill, a depressed area connected to the rest of the city by the Angels Flight trolley. The Indians were already exiles, from the moment they lost their ancestral lands and were confined to reservations. Starting on Friday afternoon and closing Saturday morning, the film follows pregnant Yvonne, her husband Homer, and their Mexican acquaintance Tommy...