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Sherman Alexie: A Collection of Critical Essays (review)

Sherman Alexie: A Collection of Critical Essays (review) their target had consistently made enemies over the span of his leadership. It ul- timately cost him his life. The author convincingly develops the circumstances that led to Hole in the Day the Younger’s death. The author mined fi rsthand accounts of the events described in the book and visited numerous repositories. As a result, the book is remarkably well re- searched. Oral history is vital to this book. Over the course of many years, Treuer spoke with forty-seven different Indians about the different issues he discusses, including Hole in the Day. However, this becomes easily forgotten while read- ing, because there is no forceful inclusion of the interviews. Treuer occasionally reminds the reader at the end of a paragraph that some of the information pre- sented was provided by a particular interview, but leaving so many of the ref- erences to the oral histories to the endnotes makes it easy to forget the impor- tance of those same oral histories to this project. Without a forceful inclusion of the interviews, it seems that much of the information in the narrative comes from traditional sources, which certainly is not the case. The Assassination of Hole in the Day is http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The American Indian Quarterly University of Nebraska Press

Sherman Alexie: A Collection of Critical Essays (review)

The American Indian Quarterly , Volume 36 (3) – Oct 5, 2012

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University of Nebraska Press
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Copyright © 2008 The University of Nebraska Press.
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1534-1828

Abstract

their target had consistently made enemies over the span of his leadership. It ul- timately cost him his life. The author convincingly develops the circumstances that led to Hole in the Day the Younger’s death. The author mined fi rsthand accounts of the events described in the book and visited numerous repositories. As a result, the book is remarkably well re- searched. Oral history is vital to this book. Over the course of many years, Treuer spoke with forty-seven different Indians about the different issues he discusses, including Hole in the Day. However, this becomes easily forgotten while read- ing, because there is no forceful inclusion of the interviews. Treuer occasionally reminds the reader at the end of a paragraph that some of the information pre- sented was provided by a particular interview, but leaving so many of the ref- erences to the oral histories to the endnotes makes it easy to forget the impor- tance of those same oral histories to this project. Without a forceful inclusion of the interviews, it seems that much of the information in the narrative comes from traditional sources, which certainly is not the case. The Assassination of Hole in the Day is

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The American Indian QuarterlyUniversity of Nebraska Press

Published: Oct 5, 2012

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