Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie represents to its audience the
             tale of how the Native Americans had to abdicate their belief, Religion and
             ways of life after the coming of the White Men. Until the coming of the
             White Men, the Native Americans were divided into a number of tribes, each
             preaching their own religion and living according to their own culture and
             tradition. After defeating the Indians on the battlefield and conquering
             their lands, the White Men forced them to give up their traditional ways,
             convert to the faith of Christianity and adopt modernity.
             In the novel, the author illustrates many contradictions of the Indian
             life through the representation of the present day Indian Scene with the
             hurting accuracy of praetorian tribal politicians, ruffians who are at the
             higher authority then these politicians, drunken parents, inedible
             commodity food, 7-11 stores, Catholicism, Christianity, ancient Indian
             knowledge and prudence and the maniacal world of softball and basketball.
             This is where Michael White Hawk comes in. He is a precarious and an
             unsteady man who spends his days walking on the grounds of the parochial
             Softball field and it is through his character that these anomalies of the
             Indian ways of life, despite the frequent crossing over into burlesque, are
             expressed through the poetic candor.
             According to Philip J. Deloria,
             Early American development of a revolutionary identity, created an
             Native Americans to help shape American culture. Whites had their own
             notions of Indianness, but even with such (mis)representations, real
             to stay present at the margins, insinuating their way into Euro-
             often attempting to nudge notions of Indianness in directions they
             (Douglas Ford, Sherman Alexie's Indigenous Blues).
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