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The purpose of this 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 Flight 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 ethics of witnessing, this paper brings forth the concrete nature of Alexie’s pains to promote the health for not only Native Americans but also all mankind.