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A Part Time Indian Summary

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The absolutely true story of a part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie is about a young boy name Junior. He wanted to attend Reardan, the school where whites attended, to better himself, but he wasn’t accepted by the whites at the school. It wouldn’t be anything new to him because he wasn’t accepted at the Reservation with the rest of the Indians. Junior was the weaker Indian he couldn’t do what most Indians were expected to do he would lose all his fights and would get bullied for being a weak Indian. At Reardan, he was seen as the outcast and was bullied, but one day he stood up for himself, other races, and the buffalo and was able to knock a big bully jock down with one punch and at that moment he recognized how different it was at the school

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