The purpose of h s paper is to present how the established image of "American Indian" is demythologized and the truest "indian`ness" is invented in the time-travel trickster narrative night by Native American author Sherman Alexie. To locate Alexie`s novel in the cultural and academic horizon of the twenty first century, under the umbrella of health pursuit, elucidates Alexie`s intention to "cure" "trauma." By means of various theories of trauma and cure, trickster and humor, Levinas, and ehcs of nitnessing, h s paper brings forth the concrete nature of Alexie`s pains to promote the health for not only Native Americans but also all manland.
