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Buffalo Bill's Pawn Shop Parody

The poem 'Evolution' by Alexie Sherman depicts Buffalo Bill opening a pawn shop on a Native American reservation, where he exploits the community by taking their possessions. The Indians pawn their belongings, symbolically losing their identity and culture, until they have nothing left but their hearts. Buffalo Bill then transforms the pawn shop into a museum, charging the very people he exploited to enter and view their own heritage.

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Buffalo Bill's Pawn Shop Parody

The poem 'Evolution' by Alexie Sherman depicts Buffalo Bill opening a pawn shop on a Native American reservation, where he exploits the community by taking their possessions. The Indians pawn their belongings, symbolically losing their identity and culture, until they have nothing left but their hearts. Buffalo Bill then transforms the pawn shop into a museum, charging the very people he exploited to enter and view their own heritage.

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Evolution

By Alexie Sherman

Buffalo Bill opens a pawn shop on the reservation


right across the border from the liquor store
and he stays open 24 hours a day,7 days a week
and the Indians come running in with jewelry
television sets, a VCR, a full-lenght beaded buckskin outfit
it took Inez Muse 12 years to finish. Buffalo Bill
takes everything the Indians have to offer, keeps it
all catalogues and filed in a storage room. The Indians
pawn their hands, saving the thumbs for last, they pawn
their skeletons, falling endlessly from the skin
and when the last Indian has pawned everything
but his heart, Buffalo Bill takes that for twenty bucks
closes up the pawn shop, paints a new sign over the old
calls his venture THE MUSEUM OF NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURES
charges the Indians five bucks a head to enter.

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