Still Life by E.E. Horlak is about a young woman named Sarah Chenowith. Sarah is trying to figure out her life. She lives with her mother, but is going to school. She knows she needs to move out and forge her own destiny, but she also is afraid of change. And so she clings to herRead more
Six-Gun Snow White combines the mythos of the Wild West with the familiar story of Snow White, crafting a poignant story of what it’s like to be an outsider. The story begins when Mr. H., a silver baron, coerces a Native American woman named Gun Who Sings to be his wife. Gun Who Sings doesn’tRead more
For anyone curious about the first set of stories/poems in the collection, see “War Dances” by Sherman Alexie, Part 1. Without further ado… Another Proclamation This poem points out that around the same time that Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation proclamation, he also signed the death warrants of Native Americans, resulting in the largest public executionRead more
I decided to break up this book into a couple posts, as it is a collection of short stories and poems. I picked up this book at the National Book Festival back in September. Alexie’s novels are often challenged in schools because his writing addresses the problems faced by Native Americans in the modern US. ItRead more
I read this book as a part of a class I’m taking this semester on multiculturalism and librarianship. The book is about Native American culture, specifically the Kiowa. It tells the story of the author’s journey to visit his grandmother’s grave near Rainy Mountain. Each page is split into three segments. Momaday opens each sectionRead more