Notes Sherman Alexi
Jesus Christ half-brothers alive and well on the Spokane Indian Reservation
1966 Rosemary warning dove gave birth to a boy the father is Frank Many Horses
the child’s name is James she named him _________ which means he who crawl silently through the grass with a small bow and one bad arrow hunting for enough gear to feed the whole tribe
a fire at Rosemary’s house Frank many horses throws James out the window and the baby is on fire and his head got dented and he didn’t cry
Rosemary and Frank died and because he saved the baby he takes the baby in
1967 James doesn’t talk or walk or cry
1968 Indian clinic set too early for him to talk
he still doesn’t cry
1969 took James to the clinic he’s not crying
he falls off the wagon and starts drinking again
Suzy song took care of him and Frank
playing basketball some of the asked him if Suzy song and James were his wife and son and he says yes
he is for and he doesn’t speak in his physical development is slow but that’s normal for and Indian child
he hurts his leg playing basketball hurts his knee
1970 that any still thought about the Pueblo Indians that disappeared because no one thought about them
James, five he doesn’t talk or crawl or cry
Dr. said nothing wrong with him he’s a slow developer
watching the Vietnam War on TV he is still drinking at the bar
please basketball drunk guy named Ray pulls kerosene gas out over the court and lights it up in the snow melts along with Lester follow parts pants
so they set the basketball court on fire to melt the snow so they could play
his friends Ray and Joseph got arrested for beating up a white guy
1971 he gets arrested at a tribal police for abandoning his child as he forgot about he was drunk
he goes to AA because that The Only Way, James will be left with him his aunt was in also and Suzy song is in also help take care James
1972 he’s trying to drink
he gets a postcard from a girl he’s to go with in Seattle and asked if he still loves her and he sent her the light bill
1973 James talked that it was when he wasn’t looking in the doctors said it wasn’t true
James talks when he isn’t in the room when no one can hear
Christmas 1973 James talks radio problem and it’s the best present he says a lot of things he told them to get a job and grow out his braids and to shoot left-handed and he said open a fireworks stand
1974 worlds fair in Spokane he took James
A train is in order of occurrence designed to lead some result
Samuel builds the fire works at a third Avenue motel as a maid these to be a nice hotel that doubtless crappy full of drug addicts one-time Samuel found a young Indian boy dead in the room from drug overdose
it was his birthday and he didn’t get anything from anybody gritting his children he gets fired from his job being a made because the economy is bad
he goes to a bar for the first time because he doesn’t drink
he starts drinking trips and falls on a train track and is killed
The good story
mother quilting says his stories are sad and she was your good story
the story uncle Moses had a sandwich shop he sings a good day song
Moses learns that 99% of matter in the universe is invisible to the human eye so he made sure to say hello to everything he couldn’t see
Indian children would come one point named Arnold was a full blood Spokane Indian but he was very pale
there is a field trip all the other went to a baseball game in Spokane and he hid until they left because he wanted to see Moses
he asked Mrs. to tell him the story
and then his mother went back to quilting and sang a it’s a good day song
the first annual all Indian horseshoe pitching barbecue
somebody forgot the charcoal blame the BIA which is the Bureau of Indian affairs
Victor bought a secondhand baby grand Canaletto fleamarket and brought it back to the reservation in a BIA pickup truck
underneath the picnic table he drank Kool-Aid and eight a hot dog with a girl
Simon one the horseshoe pitch with the double ringer and he knew he would top the story forever
Simon one the one on one basketball tournament with a jump shot
Seymour told Simon that winning the contests will make them famous
a baby born of a white mother and a red father both sides of the baby are beautiful
Imagining the Reservation
imagine if crazy horse invented the atom bomb in 1876 and blew up Washington DC
Indians wouldn’t be in one-room apartments on reservations
talked about working the graveyard shift in a Seattle 711 in total a man locked them in the cooler and stole all the money out of the cash register and he took his basketball shoes off his feet and the last dollar bill from his wallet
hobo froze to death in a locked refrigeration car the temperature was never below 50° but the body forgot how to survive no one turned on the refrigerator
survival equals anger times imagination and imagination is the only weapon on the reservation
and Indian child could see the future a total of $20 bill was hidden in his shoe and it would change his life forever
Indian child told Lester his heart was buried at the base of a pine tree behind the trading post
Indian child told him to break every near in the house and take the pieces to my body and he did it in the Indian child laughed reflecting every last word of the story
they ate nothing but red potatoes Green potatoes and blue potatoes because his sister bought food coloring in the eight potatoes every day of their life and she wanted to be more interesting
July 4 Indian boy blew off his fingers with MAD firework
Tony Swaggart slept in the basement with $2000 worth of fireworks and it accidentally caught on fire
you have to imagine everything you have to imagine that your shadow Isadore, the water will mend broken bones, a drum wraps itself around your heart, a story that puts wood in the fireplace
Initive 1351 smaller class sizes 50.57% winning
591 limit govt right to take away your guns winning 54.55%
594 background checks passes
Republicans control the House