Sherman Alexie always loved to read, but it never occurred to him that he—or any other Native American, for that matter—could become a writer.
That all changed when he read a poem by Adrian C. Louis and came to the following line: “O Uncle Adrian! I’m in the reservation of my mind.”
Read his thunderclap of an essay about the experience, as well as a reprinting of the fateful poem, in the Atlantic.
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