The Business of Fancydancing

The Business of Fancydancing
Author: Sherman Alexie
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1992
Genre: American poetry
ISBN: 9780914610243

Collects short stories and poems from the author, focusing on life on a Native American reservation in eastern Washington state.

The Business of Fancydancing

The Business of Fancydancing
Author: Sherman Alexie
Publisher:
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2003
Genre: Drama
ISBN:

Screenplay of Sherman Alexie's second film, which Alexie wrote, produced and directed. The film uses the same title as Alexie's debut collection of poems and short stories.

Reservation Blues

Reservation Blues
Author: Sherman Alexie
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2013-10-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1480457175

DIVDIVWinner of the American Book Award and the Murray Morgan Prize, Sherman Alexie’s brilliant first novel tells a powerful tale of Indians, rock ’n’ roll, and redemption/div Coyote Springs is the only all-Indian rock band in Washington State—and the entire rest of the world. Thomas Builds-the-Fire takes vocals and bass guitar, Victor Joseph hits lead guitar, and Junior Polatkin rounds off the sound on drums. Backup vocals come from sisters Chess and Checkers Warm Water. The band sings its own brand of the blues, full of poverty, pain, and loss—but also joy and laughter.DIV It all started one day when legendary bluesman Robert Johnson showed up on the Spokane Indian Reservation with a magical guitar, leaving it on the floor of Thomas Builds-the-Fire’s van after setting off to climb Wellpinit Mountain in search of Big Mom./divDIV In Reservation Blues, National Book Award winner Alexie vaults with ease from comedy to tragedy and back in a tour-de-force outing powered by a collision of cultures: Delta blues and Indian rock. DIVThis ebook features an illustrated biography including rare photos from the author’s personal collection./div/divDIV/div/div

The Toughest Indian in the World

The Toughest Indian in the World
Author: Sherman Alexie
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2013-10-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1480457183

“Stunning” short stories by the National Book Award–winning author of The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution). In this bestselling volume of stories, National Book Award winner Sherman Alexie challenges readers to see Native American Indians as the complex, modern, real people they are. The tender and tenacious tales of The Toughest Indian in the World introduce us to the one-hundred-eighteen-year-old Etta Joseph, former co-star and lover of John Wayne, and to the unnamed narrator of the title story, a young Indian journalist searching for togetherness one hitchhiker at a time. Countless other brilliant creations leap from Alexie’s mind in these nine stories. Upwardly mobile Indians yearn for a more authentic life, married Indian couples push apart while still cleaving together, and ordinary, everyday Indians hunt for meaning in their lives. The Toughest Indian in the World combines anger, humor, and beauty into radiant fictions, fiercely imagined, from one of America’s greatest writers. This ebook features an illustrated biography including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.

Visualities 2

Visualities 2
Author: Denise K. Cummings
Publisher: MSU Press
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2019-03-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1628953640

Echoing and expanding the aims of the first volume, Visualities: Perspectives on Contemporary American Indian Film and Art, this second volume contains illuminating global Indigenous visualities concerning First Nations, Aboriginal Australian, Maori, and Sami peoples. This insightful collection of essays explores how identity is created and communicated through Indigenous film-, video-, and art-making; what role these practices play in contemporary cultural revitalization; and how indigenous creators revisit media pasts and resignify dominant discourses through their work. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Visualities Two draws on American Indian studies, film studies, art history, cultural studies, visual culture studies, women’s studies, and postcolonial studies. Among the artists and media makers examined are Tasha Hubbard, Rachel Perkins, and Ehren “Bear Witness” Thomas, as well as contemporary Inuit artists and Indigenous agents of cultural production working to reimagine digital and social platforms. Films analyzed include The Exiles, Winter in the Blood, The Spirit of Annie Mae, Radiance, One Night the Moon, Bran Nue Dae, Ngati, Shimásání, and Sami Blood.

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
Author: Sherman Alexie
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 236
Release: 1997
Genre: American literature
ISBN: 074938669X

Weaves characters, themes and language in 22 linked stories that evoke the complex density of life in and around the Spokane Indian Reservation. The author is one of Granta's 20 Best Young American Writers.

The Soul of the Indian

The Soul of the Indian
Author: Charles A. Eastman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 204
Release: 1911
Genre: Indian mythology
ISBN:

An effort by a Native American to explain the content and attraction of Indian spirituality, concluding that Christianity and civilization are ultimately incompatible concepts.

Conversations with Sherman Alexie

Conversations with Sherman Alexie
Author: Sherman Alexie
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Authors, American
ISBN: 9781604732801

Interviews with the Native American author of the short story collections Ten Little Indians and The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven; the National Book Award-winning young adult novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian; and the screenplay Smoke Signals

First Indian on the Moon

First Indian on the Moon
Author: Sherman Alexie
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1993
Genre: Indian literature
ISBN: 9781882413027

The renowned Native American author offers a collection of poems, prose poems, mini-essays, and fragments of stories, woven together in a tapestry of pain about death by fire and survival by endurance on the Spokane Indian Reservation.

Seeing Red—Hollywood's Pixeled Skins

Seeing Red—Hollywood's Pixeled Skins
Author: LeAnne Howe
Publisher: MSU Press
Total Pages: 491
Release: 2013-03-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1609173686

At once informative, comic, and plaintive, Seeing Red—Hollywood’s Pixeled Skins is an anthology of critical reviews that reexamines the ways in which American Indians have traditionally been portrayed in film. From George B. Seitz’s 1925 The Vanishing American to Rick Schroder’s 2004 Black Cloud, these 36 reviews by prominent scholars of American Indian Studies are accessible, personal, intimate, and oftentimes autobiographic. Seeing Red—Hollywood’s Pixeled Skins offers indispensible perspectives from American Indian cultures to foreground the dramatic, frequently ridiculous difference between the experiences of Native peoples and their depiction in film. By pointing out and poking fun at the dominant ideologies and perpetuation of stereotypes of Native Americans in Hollywood, the book gives readers the ability to recognize both good filmmaking and the dangers of misrepresenting aboriginal peoples. The anthology offers a method to historicize and contextualize cinematic representations spanning the blatantly racist, to the well-intentioned, to more recent independent productions. Seeing Red is a unique collaboration by scholars in American Indian Studies that draws on the stereotypical representations of the past to suggest ways of seeing American Indians and indigenous peoples more clearly in the twenty-first century.