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Every Teen's Struggle: Speaking to a universal need | Publishers Weekly, February 18, 2008

When the Story Stolen Is Your Own | Time, February 6, 2006

Smoke Signals: A Film by Somebody | Zoetrope, Winter 2004
no longer available online - print edition available

What Sacagawea Means to Me | Time, July 1, 2002
On the 200th anniversary of the Lewis & Clark expedition.

On My Rez | Men's Journal, February 2000
no longer available online

Introduction: Death in Hollywood | Ploughshares, Winter 2000

Some of My Best Friends | Los Angeles Times, January 23, 2000
A review of On the Rez, by Ian Frazier.

I Hated Tonto (Still Do) | Los Angeles Times, June 28, 1998
Sherman Alexie recalls growing up with stereotype movie Indians — and loving them, wanting to be them. (Well, most of them.)

Making Smoke | Aboriginal Voices, May/June 1998
no longer available online

Superman and Me | Los Angeles Times, April 19, 1998
On discovering the joys of reading.

Love, Hunger, Money... | High Country News
On Indians, gambling and Indian casinos.

reservations. Columns from The Stranger
Sixteen Words vs. Ten Words | August 14, 2003
Bush's miscalculations in the war against Iraq.

Vouch for Me | May 29, 2003
Second thoughts about school vouchers.

George and Dick | May 15, 2003
Was the war in Iraq all about Dubya's sex life?

An Imaginary Interview | May 1, 2003
What if Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity had questioned Newt Gingrich's morals?

Lefties Need to Love, Love, Love the White Working Class | April 17, 2003
On bridging divisions among liberals.

Chapter & Verse | March 27, 2003
Reclaiming God from pro-war hypocrites--and unmasking Bush as a lousy Christian.

Relevant Contradictions | February 27, 2003
In defense of humor, irony, satire, and a Native American perspective on the war on Iraq.