The toughest Indian in the world
By: by Sherman Alexie
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780871138019; 9780871138125
Subjects: Social life and customs; Indians of North America; Fiction
Description: "In these stories, we meet the kinds of American Indians we rarely see in literature - the upper and middle class, the professionals and white-collar workers, the bureaucrats and poets, falling in and out of love and wondering if they will make their way home. A Spokane Indian journalist transplanted from the reservation to the city picks up a hitchhiker, a Lummi boxer looking to take on the toughest Indian in the world.

A Spokane son waits for his diabetic father to return from the hospital, listening to his father's friends argue over Jesus' carpentry skills as they build a wheelchair ramp. An estranged interracial couple, separated in the midst of a traffic accident, rediscover their love for each other. A white drifter holds up an International House of Pancakes, demanding a dollar per customer and someone to love, and emerges with forty-two dollars and an overweight Indian he dubs Salmon Boy."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: Assimilation; title: The toughest Indian in the world; title: Class; title: South by southwest; title: The sin eaters; title: Indian country; title: Saint Junior; title: Dear John Wayne; title: One good man.