The construction of identity in Native American literature tends to depend on the trope of alienation. The protagonists must then accept their condition of exile/alienation and disengage from the world in order to rediscover the meaning of their precolonial life. Using the plight of Native Americans, the authors expose the effects of decolonization and how individuals must undergo a process of recovery. In these circumstances, the characters are able to recover knowledge of a tribal self that had been distorted by years of oppression. Through Welch's Winter in the Blood and The Heartsong of Charging Elk, and Alexie's Flight, we can see how the protagonists suffer from the tensions of living on the margins of conflicting societies, and that they must overcome their alienations in order to reconnect with an indigenous people. identity.In Winter in the Blood, Welch's unnamed narrator continually struggles for self-knowledge, but is thwarted by a very disconnected past, present, and future. In his many destabilizing events, the narrator is unable to connect to any cultural or spiritual center, which inevitably deprives him of a coherent identity. Throughout the novel, he is denied the explanation of his real grandfather, the reason why "First Raise remained so far away" and other memories in his own mind because "memory makes him defect” (Winter 21, 19). However, the only event that the narrator manages to remember is that “when the old lady told this story, many years ago, her eyes were not flat and wispy; they were black as the belly of a spider and the little black hands drew triumphant images in the air” (Winter 36). Its memory is based on the principle of narration, which takes up the traditional aspect of Native American culture. Whi...... middle of paper ...... "loved...hated...betrayed....[and] the people who betrayed him", he understands that "we are all the same people” (Vol 130) The novel thus comes full circle in Zit’s consciousness and, ultimately, urges his new adoptive mother to “please call me Michael” (Vol 181). and Alexie challenge dominant constructions of Native identity in their attempts to dismantle all forms of identity (both within and outside of Native cultures. By deconstructing the stereotypical tribal experience). , Zits, Charging Elk and the Narrator offer a more freely defined model of Native American identity. Each character is thus freed from assigned colonial identities and can adopt a more ahistorical one. By appropriating this model, the protagonists overturn the artificial distinction of. society and reveal a true identity of the contemporary Indian..