1. The Struggle for Self-Identity in
... Education" Sherman Alexie, in "Indian Education", writes about his youth while attending school on an Indian Reservation, and later, in the white public school system. He speaks of the troubled times in his early education that seem to echo throughout both primary and secondary school. Not only did Alexie have ... more that he was not welcome at the school and, by default, on the reservation as a whole. In addition, while in seventh grade, Alexie distances himself even more from the tribe by kissing a white girl as he " leaned through the basement window of the HUD house- (485) ... which...
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