Iowa Review

This interview with Alexie definetly showed me that he is more outspoken than I originally thought. By all means he has earned the right to be so but I just never imagined that he had such strong opinions on certain subjects such as others writing about a culture that has been "colonized". I do agree with his point of view to a certain extent but I do not like how he says some of Americas literature about Indians written by non Indains is an "outsider" book. I do realize that there is some truth to this thinking but how can he honestly say that when America's and his culture are so closely intertwined? Certainly there is some Native American literature that is inaccurate by Indian standards but their is just as many that are accurate, regardless of who has written them. It is possible and probable that their were many people who understood the Indian culture perfectly in the western era of our country whether they were white, hispanic, african american or european because surely all of these ethnicities had people who's lives were closely intertwined with Native Americans which therefore gives them the right and perogative to write about Indian culture.