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by Tommy Orange
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The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta
The first novel by a Native person, and the first novel written in California, was written in 1854, by a Cherokee guy named John Rollin Ridge. The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta was based on a supposed real‐life Mexican bandit from California by the same name, who was killed by a group of Texas Rangers in 1853.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
…and the sink‐tossing, crazy Indian who was the narrator in the novel, the voice of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
Everybody’s Autobiography
Dene wants to tell him he’d looked up the quote in its original context, in her Everybody’s Autobiography, and found that she was talking about how the place where she’d grown up in Oakland had changed so much, that so much development had happened there, that the there of her childhood, the there there, was gone, there was no there there anymore.
Crazy Horse’s Prophecy
“Here, look at this.” She handed me a laminated card from her purse the size of a playing card. It was that picture you see everywhere, the sad‐Indian‐on‐a‐horse silhouette, and on the other side it said Crazy Horse’s Prophecy. I read it: Upon suffering beyond suffering; the Red Nation shall rise again and it shall be a blessing for a sick world. A world filled with broken promises, selfishness and separations. A world longing for light again. I see a time of seven generations, when all the colors of mankind will gather under the sacred Tree of Life and the whole Earth will become one circle again.
The Picatrix
A bezoar is a mass found trapped in the gastrointestinal system, but when you search bezoar you’re led to The Picatrix. The Picatrix is a book of magic and astrology from the twelfth century originally written in Arabic and titled Ghāyat al-Ḥakīm, meaning “The Goal of the Wise.”
The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo
He read Hunter’s lawyer, Oscar Zeta Acosta. He loved The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo and The Revolt of the Cockroach People.
The Revolt of the Cockroach People
He read Hunter’s lawyer, Oscar Zeta Acosta. He loved The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo and The Revolt of the Cockroach People.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
He read Ken Kesey. He loved One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. He was pissed when they made the movie and the Native guy, who was the narrator of the whole book, just played the crazy silent stoic Indian who threw the sink through the window at the end.
Quran
In the late 1990s, Saddam Hussein commissioned a Quran to be written in his own blood. Now Muslim leaders aren’t sure what to do with it. To have written the Quran in blood was a sin, but to destroy it would also be a sin.
Transformers
Tony plays with his Transformers on the floor of his bedroom. He makes them fight in slow motion. He gets lost in the story he works out for them. It’s always the same. There is a battle, then a betrayal, then a sacrifice. The good guys end up winning, but one of them dies, like Optimus Prime had to in Transformers, which Maxine let him watch on that old VHS machine, even though she said she thought he was too young.
War Dances
War Dances by Sherman Alexie
The Round House
The Round House by Louise Erdrich
Fools Crow
Fools Crow by James Welch
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