How Does Sherman Alexie Reflect The Hardships Of Native Americans?

In Sherman Alexie’s collection of short stories, Alexie purpose in writing stories is to depict how adversities are irreversible to the past, but not the future if you don’t allow it to be. In Alexie short stories they’re all interconnected with each story showcasing the hardships of Native Americans in the 15th century and late 20th century. The Spokane Reservation is the setting that’s connected with each story where Sherman discusses poverty, alcoholism, and isolation from society outsides one reservation. For example, when Junior, Thomas, and Victor was taking the new drugs they were discussing the destruction of the Europeans to the native land, “those blankets they gave us, infected with smallpox”(Alexie 17). The smallpox epidemic killed