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A 4 page analysis of the short story by Sherman Alexie. This story portrays the impacts of white America on Native American welfare through the eyes of a homeless alcoholic Indian living on the streets of Spokane Washington. It details his quest to regain his connection with all that has been taken from him. No additional sources are listed.
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File: AM2_PPnaPawn.rtf
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"What You Pawn I Will Redeem" is an insight into the many problems that plague Native Americans from all walks of life. Unfortunately, many of these problems can be
traced to the history of attempted genocide by the U.S. government and the forced assimilation attempts that occurred afterward. This short story recaps the negative impacts that Native Americans
have incurred as a result of homelessness, capitalism, alcohol, cigarettes, dysfunctional families, violence and even refined sugar; all products of the attempts of one culture to dominate another.
"What You Pawn I Will Redeem" is the story of a Salish Indian living on the streets of Spokane, Washington. His friends include other
homeless Indians, all of whom share his passion for freedom from the constraints of life in the mainstream and all of whom have succumbed to the pressures of a world
that is so different from their traditional worlds. They each interact and have interacted, to one degree or another, with the non-Native world. They each have walked away
from those interactions with both physical and psychological scars. Jackson Jackson is the name, so he says, that our protagonist was assigned by
his parents. The name in itself is an ironic reflection of the impact of the white world on the red. Making his first and last name both reflect
one of the most dishonorable figures in Native American history, Andrew Jackson, is a doubly whammy. As Jackson Jackson is quick to reveal his nickname is "Jackson Squared".
The reference to square symbolizes the attempts that white society has made throughout history to put round pegs into square holes, to force white values on traditional cultures.
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