How to Write the Great American Indian Novel

In this poem Alexie talks about the depictions regarding both Native Americans and Whites. He starts off by talking about the physical features that all Indians must have. He then goes on to discuss how the hero is viewed. Alexie makes the statement that he will be half-breed,half white, and India from a horse culture.

He suggest that the Indian women are depicted as being beautiful and physically fit and all the white men are in love with her. Further on he talks about Native Americans having secrets and how they are slowly revealed. He mentions many other stereotypes that have been given to Indian men. Like the fact that all of them are storms who destroy the lives of all white women who choose to love them.

These are among the few stereotypes given by Alexie that one should notice when writing about Native Americans novels. Native Americans have been depicted as being/doing such things that this is all one knows when they write or make a movie about Native Americans. I agree with Alexie statement In the Great American Indian Novel, when it is written, all the whites will be Indians and all the Indians will be ghosts. This is true knowing that whites took everything they owned including their identity , made it their own, and left them with nothing as if they never existed.