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Dear DT: Thank you so much for sharing your own shattering experience. I know it will help others.
Dear Amy: Thank you for including a reference to my work in your response to “Not Born in the USA,” a Russian who immigrated to the United States as a teenager and who wants to become more acculturated to American life as an adult.
I appreciate being including in your suggested American reading list.
This is way cool. Indians are rarely included in lists like this.
Reservation-raised Indians are even more invisible.
I know I’m a big name in American literature, but I’m also a kid who grew up in a HUD house on the rez across the street from the tribe’s K-12 school, and only a little farther away from the Indian Health Service Clinic. So, you know -- waaaaaaaaaay Indian.
So here’s to all of you Indians living on the rez, and all who’ve gone urban (like me).
Here’s to the unbroken connection to our ancestors. To all of our indigenous beauty.
Sherman Alexie
Dear Sherman: “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian (Hachette, 2012) is taught in many schools, and along with your stories, novels, screenplays and poetry, has earned its place in the American canon. Thank you for your work.
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