"The Sin Eaters"

Title"The Sin Eaters"
Year for Search2000
AuthorsAlexie, Sherman [Joseph] [Jr.](b. 1966)
Secondary TitleThe Toughest Indian in the World
Pagination76-120
Date Published2000
PublisherAtlantic Monthly Press
Place PublishedNew York:
KeywordsMale author, Native American author
Annotation

Dystopia in which all Native Americans are violently rounded up and taken to prison camps. The pure blooded then have their bone marrow taken and forced to have sex to produce children who will also be used to harvest bone marrow to suppress cancers in the white majority. 

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Author Note

Native American Indian (Coeur d’Alene) author (b. 1966)

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2000 Alexie, Sherman [Joseph, Jr.] (b. 1966). “The Sin Eaters.” The Toughest Indian in the World (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2000), 76-120. PSt

Dystopia in which all Native Americans are violently rounded up and taken to prison camps. The pure blooded then have their bone marrow taken and forced to have sex to produce children who will also be used to harvest bone marrow to suppress cancers in the white majority. Native American Indian (Coeur d’Alene) author.