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· The following version of this story was used to create this Lesson Plan: Alexie, Sherman. “Happy Trails.” The New Yorker. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/06/10/happy-trails.

· “Happy Trails” opens in the past with a description of the narrator’s uncle, Hector.

· Forty-one years earlier Hector vanished from the Indian reservation where the narrator's family has lived for generations.

·The narrator was seven when his favorite uncle Hector disappeared.

· When Hector left, he told his family he was planning to hitchhike to Spokane.

· Hector had been an alcoholic who worked sporadically.

· The narrator believes that had Hector remained on the reservation “he would have sobered up and become a tribal elder” (1).

· The narrator imagines that Hector would have been “the Head Man Traditional Dancer at every third powwow” (1).

· The narrator says that Indian men are either slender and young or old with large bellies and scrawny legs...

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