108. Sherman Alexie Wants His Scars

Christmas comes early as we interview Sherman Alexie, Native American author and top-tier Substacker, about Pretendians like Sasheen Littlefeather and Buffy Sainte-Marie, who steal trauma for their own status. We also discuss:

• Buy our new holiday meatballs!

• Let it be said, Sherman Alexie has awesome hair

• The ruse of the word “indigenous”

• Why Sherman was not shocked to learn Buffy Sainte-Marie was not native

• How inclusivity plays out in a younger generation of “defendians”

• “I grew up in hell”: hard life on the rez

• Drink, drank, drunk

• The genetic link of blackout drinking

• You wake up naked on the top of a hill, what do you do?

• You should be so lucky to have an ancestor named Thunder Meatflayer

• Indian goodbye, Indian hello

• Will the current surge in Indian film and TV creation continue?

• The “shocking and amazing” classic novel Sherman just re-read

• Scorsese Scorsese Scorsese

Plus Sherman comes up with a song we want AI to create and Sarah shocks Nancy and Sherman with a story about a romantic cult that went WAY too far …