Lone Ranger & Tonton Fistfight in Heaven: A book by Sherman Alexie&Smoke Signals: A film by Chris Eyre at the London Film Festival

“Smoke Signals” film and “Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven” book reveal real life stories in American Indian reservations. Both of these narratives disclose the life of drunkenness, unemployment and basketball among American Indians in an Idaho reservation. In this paper a comparison of Indian reservations and urban ghettos will be compared and analyzed to explain the ignorance of researchers, lack of literature, and the amplification of information on these communities that is often told or written about.
For instance, Indian reservation and urban ghettos have been depicted as communities whose background, culture and language have left them behind in society. Yet, very few often see these communities as places in which persistent life of isolation without a future seemed to take over the lives of Native Americans, poor Blacks and Latinos. Although, these communities have many positive aspects often the media, educators and politicians tend to focus only on the ne...