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This tribal history of the Spokane Indians begins with an account of their early life in the Pacific Northwest central plateau region before the arrival of white settlers and fur traders in the eighteenth century. It then describes in harrowing detail the U.S. government's encroachment on their lands and the subsequent enforced settlement of Spokane people on reservations. The volume concludes with a presentation of twentieth-century developments,...

When it was first published in 1993, "The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven established Sherman Alexie as a stunning new talent of American letters. The basis for the award-winning movie "Smoke Signals, it remains one of his most beloved and widely praised books. In this darkly comic collection, Alexie brilliantly weaves memory, fantasy, and stark realism to paint a complex, grimly ironic portrait of life in and around the Spokane Indian Reservation....

"One of the most vital of the younger writers....Watch this guy. He's making myth." -- Joy Harjo. "The high spirit of Crazy Horse...is alive in this book and dances powerfully." -- American Book Review. "Tremendous pain and anger, but there is also love, humor and plenty of irony... recommended for literature collections in all types of libraries." -- Library Journal.

Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot. Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation, was born with a variety of medical problems. Determined to receive a good education, he leaves the rez to attend an all-white school in the neighboring farm town. There, the only other Indian is the...

"In 1946, a bus carrying the Spokane Indians baseball team crashed, leaving nine players dead and six hospitalized. This book tells their stories, primarily through the lives of three key players, following them through WWII, into the 1946 season that was greatly impacted by men returning from overseas, and through the crash that changed everything" -- Provided by publisher.