Arnold Spirit, who is known on the Reservation as Junior, decides to attend high school at the wealthier white school about 22 miles away from home. While many people on the Spokane Indian Reservation, including his best friend Rowdy see it as a betrayal, his older sister finds his courage to leave the Res an inspiration.

In Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko, Tayo's Laguna community seeks to help him heal from the PTSD that he, like many of his peers, has brought back with him from World War II. A story that echoes the familiar tales of alcohol abuse and struggles with racism and belonging encountered in Alexie's work, the overlap between the returned veterans' PTSD and the multi-generational trauma of reservation life and colonialism lays the cultural foundation for a plot that drew me in and l

I just completed reading Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie and writing my blog post about why people might want to read or teach this...

SUMMARY Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie is the tale of a group of young Indians, as in Native American (though they refer to...