The toughest Indian in the world /
"In these stories, we meet the kind of American Indians we rarely see in literature -- the kind who pay their bills, hold down jobs, fall in and out of love. A Spokane Indian journalist transplanted from the reservation to the city picks up a hitchhiker, a Lummi boxer looking to take on the tou...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Atlantic Monthly Press,
[2000]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Online Access: | Additional Information at Google Books |
| Summary: | "In these stories, we meet the kind of American Indians we rarely see in literature -- the kind who pay their bills, hold down jobs, fall in and out of love. A Spokane Indian journalist transplanted from the reservation to the city picks up a hitchhiker, a Lummi boxer looking to take on the toughest Indian in the world. A Spokane son waits for his diabetic father to come home from the hospital, tossing out the Hershey Kisses the father has hidden all over the house. An estranged interracial couple, separated in the midst of a traffic accident, rediscover their love for each other. A white drifter holds up an International House of Pancakes, demanding a dollar per customer and someone to love, and emerges with $42 and an overweight Indian he dubs Salmon Boy"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 238 pages ; 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780871138019 0871138018 0871138123 9780871138125 9780802138002 0802138004 9781442081956 1442081953 9780965010481 0965010481 |