The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Sherman Alexie, 2007
A teenage cartoonist leaves his reservation school for a white town's, and reports the whole funny, bruising business in drawings and wisecracks.
Sherman Alexie
Alexie wrote the screenplay for Smoke Signals (1998), widely called the first feature film written, directed and co-produced by Native Americans.
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