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Now You See Us, Now You Don't: Native Americans in Today's West
No one does dark comedy quite like Sherman Alexie. His brilliant collection of short stories, The Toughest Indian in the World, features a cast of American Indians unlike any you've met in literature before.|||||||
Date: Sunday, May 5, 12:00 noon to 5:00pm
Location: Native American Trading Co. (1301 Bannock, next to Denver Art Museum)
Cost: $35.00 per person (includes refreshments and a ReadSmartGuide)
advance registration required: contact us for more information
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The Toughest Indian in the World
Sherman Alexie. Grove/Atlantic Press: 2000. 238 pages.
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Alexie has been selected by The New Yorker as one of the best American fiction writers under forty. Some critics have called him the best Native American writer of his time. We say he's one of the best writers around, period.
His latest contribution is this collection of short stories that will certainly challenge most of most people's preconceived notions of the contemporary Native American experience. His American Indian characters live in the city and the suburbs as well as on the reservation. They are journalists, lawyers, country music lovers, homosexuals, athletes, frequent flyers. Like the rest of us, they have their tragic and their noble and their savage qualities, but Alexie's brutal honesty and deadpan wit ensure that we see these people as individuals rather than as symbols of a lost cause.
Alexie is a fierce writer--he doesn't flinch in the face of injustice, brutality, or ugliness--but he's also very funny, very appealing, very touching, and very worth your reading time. In our seminar, we will look at Alexie's stories in the context of contemporary Native American literature, and consider this author's unique contribution to current representation of the American Indian experience.
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The Native American Trading Company has become the leading source of older Indian weavings, pots, baskets, jewelry and early regional paintings and artifacts in the Rocky Mountain Region. The gallery is as inviting as a tastefully decorated home, although treasures like mid-19th century saltillos and Chief blankets give it the authority of a museum. Germantown colors of Navajo weavings brighten the walls, and pots from Mexico and the New Mexico pueblos fill windows and shelves. For earnest shoppers it offers a selection of Indian arts at prices that are hard to match anywhere else. For the casual browser, the gallery depicts important lessons in the history and culture of the American West.
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Native American Trading Company
1301 Bannock Street
303 . 534 . 0771 |
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