Note to a Culture Vulture, How to write the Great American Indian Novel

I thought the Culture Vulture poem was pretty interesting. Louis talked about the theft of the Native American identity. It was pretty funny in the end where he was hating on the so called "indian" author being successful. You can def. see a tension and underlying feeling of anger in the writing.

How to write the Great American Indian Novel was quite interesting too. It was like How to Play Indian that we read a few weeks ago. Alexie is defining how the white man is slowly trying to become more like the indians, and the Indian culture is somewhat dying because of the invasion of the white man into their culture. The last line is great, "In the Great American Indian novel...all of the white people will be Indians and all of the Indians will be ghosts." I think that line puts a real backbone in the idea that the white man is slowly turning himself into an Indian, and that the real Indians are dying because of this.