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Certainly I'm angry at the way Indians have been treated and continue to be treated. But I don't think it's a helpless emotion.

Sherman Alexie

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Sherman Alexie
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: October 7
Film Director
Film Producer
Novelist
Poet
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Writer
Wellpinit
Washington
Sherman Joseph Alexie
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Treated
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