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The Lone Ranger and Tonto
Fistfight in Heaven
Sherman Alexie
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For Bob, Dick, Mark, and Ron
For Adrian, Joy, Leslie, Simon,
and all those Native writers
whose words and music
have made mine possible
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Contents
Prologue
Introduction
Every Little Hurricane
A Drug Called Tradition
Because My Father Always Said He Was the Only Indian Who
Saw Jimi Hendrix Play “The Star-Spangled Banner” at
Woodstock
Crazy Horse Dreams
The Only Traffic Signal on the Reservation Doesn’t Flash Red
Anymore
Amusements
This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona
The Fun House
All I Wanted to Do Was Dance
The Trial of Thomas Builds-the-Fire
Distances
Jesus Christ’s Half-Brother Is Alive and Well on the Spokane
Indian Reservation
A Train Is an Order of Occurrence Designed to Lead to Some
Result
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A Good Story
The First Annual All-Indian Horseshoe Pitch and Barbecue
Imagining the Reservation
The Approximate Size of My Favorite Tumor
Indian Education
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
Family Portrait
Somebody Kept Saying Powwow
Witnesses, Secret and Not
Flight
Junior Polatkin’s Wild West Show
A Biography of Sherman Alexie
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There’s a little bit of magic in everything
and then some loss to even things out.
—Lou Reed
I listen to the gunfire we cannot hear, and begin
this journey with the light of knowing
the root of my own furious love.
—Joy Harjo
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Prologue
An email exchange between Jess Walter and Sherman Alexie
From: Sherman Alexie
To: Jess Walter
Sent: Thursday, June 20
Subject: Twentieth Anniversary Lone Ranger and Tonto
SA: So I’ve been trying to write the intro to the 20th anniversary
edition, but it feels too self-congratulatory, so do you want to
have an email exchange about it and use that as the intro?
JW: The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven is 20!?!
Your email sent me scurrying to my signed copy. I looked at the
jacket photo and there you are, with the greatest Breakfast Club
pro-wrestling warrior mullet of all time.
SA: The rez mullet! I also find my former haircut amusing in
stylistic terms. It’s embarrassing now. But there’s always been a
conscious and subconscious classist/racist edge to mullet jokes,
especially when it comes to white guys with mullets. If one
means to tell a racist/classist joke, then make it a good one, but I
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don’t actually think that many folks realize the cultural
importance of the mullet in Native American warrior history.