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All of the Indians must have tragic features: tragic noses, eyes, and arms.

Their hands and fingers must be tragic when they reach for tragic food.

The hero must be a half-breed, half white and half Indian, preferably

from a horse culture. He should often weep alone. That is mandatory.

If the hero is an Indian woman, she is beautiful. She must be slender

and in love with a white man. But if she loves an Indian man

then he must be a half-breed, preferably from a horse culture.

If the Indian woman loves a white man, then he has to be so white

that we can see the blue veins running through his skin like rivers.

When the Indian woman steps out of her dress, the white man gasps

at the endless beauty of her brown skin. She should be compared to nature:

brown hills, mountains, fertile valleys, dewy grass, wind, and clear water.

If she is compared to murky water, however, then she must have a secret.

Indians always have secrets, which are carefully and slowly revealed.

Yet Indian secrets can be disclosed suddenly, like a storm.

Indian men, of course, are storms. They should destroy the lives

of any white women who choose to love them. All white women love

Indian men. That is always the case. White women feign disgust

at the savage in blue jeans and T-shirt, but secretly lust after him.

White women dream about half-breed Indian men from horse cultures.

Indian men are horses, smelling wild and gamey. When the Indian man

unbuttons his pants, the white woman should think of topsoil.

There must be one murder, one suicide, one attempted rape.

Alcohol should be consumed. Cars must be driven at high speeds.

Indians must see visions. White people can have the same visions

if they are in love with Indians. If a white person loves an Indian

then the white person is Indian by proximity. White people must carry

an Indian deep inside themselves. Those interior Indians are half-breed

and obviously from horse cultures. If the interior Indian is male

then he must be a warrior, especially if he is inside a white man.

If the interior Indian is female, then she must be a healer, especially if she is inside

a white woman. Sometimes there are complications.

An Indian man can be hidden inside a white woman. An Indian woman

can be hidden inside a white man. In these rare instances,

everybody is a half-breed struggling to learn more about his or her horse culture.

There must be redemption, of course, and sins must be forgiven.

For this, we need children. A white child and an Indian child, gender

not important, should express deep affection in a childlike way.

In the Great American Indian novel, when it is finally written,

all of the white people will be Indians and all of the Indians will be ghosts.

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How to Write the Great American Indian Novel by... | Poetry Foundation

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All of the Indians must have tragic features: tragic noses, eyes, and arms. Their hands and fingers must be tragic when they reach for tragic food. The hero must be a half-breed, half white and half Indian, preferably from a horse culture. He should often weep alone. That is mandatory.

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"Kill the Indian, and Save the Man": Capt. Richard H. Pratt on the Education of Native Americans | Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center

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This resource includes the full text from Capt. Richard H. Pratt's "Kill the Indian, and Save the Man" speech delivered in 1892 from History Matters at George Mason University. It also includes shorter experts to be used according to needs and reading level.

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Video: Opinion | A Conversation With Native Americans on Race

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Native Americans challenge their invisibility in society.

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Signs of implicit bias lurk within our inboxes, social networks and the patterns of our daily lives. Looking at our own data can help us change our ways.

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Three female writers have gone on record with accusations of sexual harassment against the acclaimed Native American author Sherman Alexie.

Alexie, who has won a National Book Award and a PEN/Faulkner prize for his writing, issued an apology last week in the wake of a series of anonymous and unspecified allegations of harassment. Although at that point no women had spoken on the record to the media, Seattle author Litsa Dremousis alleged on Twitter that a number of women had been in touch with her to recount their stories.

Alexie's statement said: "Over the years, I have done things that have harmed other people, including those I love most deeply. To those whom I have hurt, I genuinely apologise. I am so sorry." But he rejected what he called "the accusations, insinuations and outright falsehoods" of Dremousis, with whom he once had a romantic relationship.

Now three writers have gone on the record to US broadcaster NPR, which said it had spoken to 10 women in total about Alexie, but that the majority wished to remain anonymous. According to NPR, "the women said Alexie had traded on his literary celebrity to lure them into uncomfortable sexual situations", with his alleged behaviour "ranging from inappropriate comments both in private and in public, to flirting that veered suddenly into sexual territory, unwanted sexual advances and consensual sexual relations that ended abruptly".

Alexie, author of the bestselling young adult novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, did not respond to what NPR said were multiple attempts to contact him.

Native American writer Erika Wurth told NPR she first met Alexie when she was 22, and that a year later he asked her to one of his readings, before trying to kiss her and inviting her to his room. "He's kind of taking my clothes off and kissing me," she told NPR. "And I'm trying to convince myself this is OK. It's not working, and eventually I say, because I am kind of scared of this situation: 'I'm a virgin.' But it got really weird, because then he's still trying to work me over, and I'm just stock still, and I think at that point, in my opinion, he realised that if he wanted to have sex with me he would have to violate me, he'd have to rape me. And he did stop." A second sexual encounter years later also ended badly, reported NPR, and she subsequently cut ties with him.

Author Elissa Washuta said that Alexie told her that "he could have sex with me if he wanted to" when they were out in a group of people. "But he used a stronger word, beginning with F. You know, he had not said it quietly, he had not whispered it. It seemed that the men we were talking to could have heard it. I couldn't believe that somebody would say something to me like that. This older man who I didn't know, who was much more powerful than me."

Poet and teacher Jeanine Walker said that she had become friendly with Alexie after she arranged for him to visit a class and he subsequently asked her to send him a manuscript of her poetry. After they played basketball together, she went to get changed and found him "right behind me, and just like physically very much in my space ... He leaned toward me and said, 'Can I kiss you?' I said no and backed away, and he kept moving forward and was like, laughing and smiling and sweaty and whatever, and he said, 'It's just, we're playing basketball, you remind me of the girlfriends I had in high school.' And I just said, 'Well, we're not in high school, Sherman.'" Walker said Alexie later apologised.

After the allegations about Alexie surfaced last month, the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe announced that it would be renaming its Sherman Alexie scholarship.

Alexie is one of a handful of young adult authors recently accused of sexual harassment, with Maze Runner writer James Dashner dropped by his UK and US publishers after accusations surfaced online. Thirteen Reasons Why author Jay Asher was dropped by his literary agency after he was accused, although a spokesperson denied the allegation and said there had been no finding of sexual harassment.

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Three women go public with Sherman Alexie sexual harassment allegations

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Three female writers have gone on record with accusations of sexual harassment against the acclaimed Native American author Sherman Alexie. Alexie, who has won a National Book Award and a PEN/Faulkner prize for his writing, issued an apology last week in the wake of a series of anonymous and unspecified allegations of harassment.

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What is implicit bias? NYT/POV’s Saleem Reshamwala unscrews the lid on the unfair effects of our subconscious.

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Excerpt from prologue about Thanksgiving

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Excerpt from prologue about Thanksgiving