How to Write the Great American Indian Novel

Sherman Alexie writes a poem about how Native Americans and the whites are depicted in novels.

The Indians all have distinct features and are not fully Indian but half-breed. He goes on and states that the white man is fascinated by the Indian woman and the white woman wants the Indian man.

He mentions many other stereotypes that have been given like the Indian man being a warrior and the Indian woman being a healer.

What it all boils down to is that in the Novel "all the white people will be Indians and all of the Indians will be ghosts." The Indians will no longer exist and the white man will possess all of the spirits of the Indians.