Junior explains as it were a prison “reservation were meant to be prisons...Indians were supposed to move onto reservation and die. We were supposed to disappear...Indians have forgotten that reservation were meant to be death camps” (Alexie 216-217). Junior concludes that living on the reservation is the same as being in prison; in the reservation, there is no life. At the beginning of the story, junior expose the reader to the daily life of Native Americans. Freely he explains what is like to be Native “It sucks to be poor, and it sucks to feel that you somehow deserve to be poor… And because you’re Indian you start believing you’re destined to be poor. It’s an ugly circle and there’s nothing you can do about it” (Alexie 13). Sherman Alexie addresses the issue of poverty and state that it is a cycle that Native American find hard to break out