![]() ![]() Through the character of Corliss, Alexie examines his own issues of identity, which arise from being teased over the years by relatives over his own bookishness and academic pursuits. ![]() The first story, “The Search Engine,” concerns Corliss Joseph, a bookish nineteen-year-old student of Spokane Indian ancestry and her attempts to investigate the truth behind a previously-unknown Spokane Indian poet, Harlan Atwater. Written by Sherman Alexie, a descendant of the Coeur d’Alene tribe who was raised on the Spokane Indian Reservation, these nine tales evoke the struggles and beauty of indigenous culture in the Pacific Northwest through a combination of fictionalized and autobiographical elements. Ten Little Indians is a 2004 collection of short stories about the Native American experience. ![]()
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