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Tonto hits the Lone Ranger with his Briefcase,
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This review is from: Briefcase Warriors: Stories for the Stage (American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series) (Hardcover)
The allusion to Alexie's book is no coincidence. The preface alone is a primer for American Indian Contemporary Cultural or Arts Studies. Like Alexie he shows how much humor is a means of survival for Indians but his stories do not take place on the Rez'. Having been both a Rez' and Urban Indian I can appreciate both environments but most Americans do not realize the amount of policies that went into creating the amount of Urban Indians there are. Urban Indians face different challenges and that is what E. Donald Two-Rivers does such a good job of showing.
Two-Rivers harkens back to the oral storytelling tradition of American Indians. His characters like Alexie's have real lives but move in a world that thinks they are not important and believe them to fit into stereotypes if not disappeared into history. After any of the plays included in this collection a reader, performer or audience will know that there are Indians of all kinds that live among us. That (surviving American Indians of all kinds) is truly important for American Indians to reassert while breaking down stereotypes. |
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Briefcase Warriors: Stories for the Stage (American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series) by E. Donald Two-Rivers (Hardcover - March 15, 2001)
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