... the search for an Indian man, they carry a huge list of qualifications. He has to have a job. He has to be kind, intelligent, and funny. He has to dance and sing. He should know how to iron his own clothes. Braids would be nice. But as the screwed-up Indian men stagger through their lives, Indian men need only to have their own teeth to get ... Michael White Hawk "that the musical instrument is not be used in the same was that a bow and arrow is? Music is supposed to heal".11 This is where the reader is well and truly immersed in Alexie's magical realism with the character of Big Mom wh...

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