... on reservations as demeaning. According to bibliographical notes in the Abcarian, Alexie replied "I write what I know and I don't try to mythologize myself, which is what some may seem to want, and which some Indian men and women writers are doing we don't live our lives that way". Some of Alexie's works include The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (1993), Indian Killer (1996), and The Toughest Indian in the World (2000). Alexie's story This Is What ... It Means to Say Phoenix Arizona provided the basis for the film Smoke Signals (1998). The main characters of Eldrich's The Red...

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