Dec 20, 2009
The Toughest Indian in the World | The Toughest Indian in the World
At a glance:
- Author: Sherman Alexie
- First Published: 1999
- Type of Plot: Realism
- Time of Work: 1998
- Setting: Wenatchee, Washington
- Principal Characters: An American Indian writer, The hitchhiker
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Journalism or journalists, Traveling or travelers, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Twentieth century, Native Americans or American Indians, Hotels, motels, or inns, Boxing, 1990’s, Washington
- Locales: Washington
The Story
This story about a Native American (Sherman Alexie prefers the term
“Indian”) who has left the reservation but yearns for his tribe's mythic past
begins with a prologue in which the protagonist relates his father's advice to pick up only
Native American hitchhikers, warning him that white people will kill you because they smell the
dead salmon on you.
When the narrator was a boy, his father would point out hitchhikers on the road: If a
hitchhiker were a fellow Native American, he would stop, but if he were a white man his father
would drive by without...
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