“The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me” Dialogue

I can understand the meaning that the author stated about a “smart Indian” is one to be feared or is thought of as dangerous. People that are smart are feared because with knowledge one is aware of the power they hold and the ability to change their fate. I’m glad that the author didn’t except his fate. With knowledge people are aware of the many injustices that are going on within their society and can do something about it. If he accepted his fate like all the other Indian boys there wouldn’t be any to aid his society and to push the boundaries that he did.
Not only “smart Indian” dangerous to Non-Indianans but to Indians too. That is because it would mean that they would have to change. If they had knowledge their safe average life would exist any longer. Some people become compliant because they don’t want the burden or the problem that might come from being noticed or different from the norm. Alexie stirred the pot he made people aware that Indians aren’t dumb and could make it in the outside world and that meant people were just choosing to be poor and obedient.
My best part of what Alexie wrote about Superman and how even before he knew how to read he’d imagine Superman busting down the door. He himself changed his life because he became educated and wasn’t afraid to bust through his own barriers and become something that would never be expected from him or any other person from the Indian Reservation.
Alexie continues to change lives because he goes back to the reservation to aid other children and change their life by giving them the knowledge and the ability to give them a dream so they can do something about their own fate. Being someone that they can admire and to aspire to be like when they grow up. Alexie has become a child advocate to aid others in Indian Reservations. He goes back and shows the children that someone just like them can succeed, which was something that he was lacking when he was boy.
I’m actually wondering a little more about Alexie father. He seemed not to accept his own fate, but did nothing with it. He was educated by Christian society and loved to read and owned a lot of books, but I was wondering what became of him or what he lacked to change his family’s fate.