Chapter 7 of Dean Rader's book which focusses on Sherman Alexie's films 'Smoke Signals' (1998) and 'The Business of Fancydancing' (2002). An institution in the world of Native fiction, poetry, and film and within any discourse about indigenous aesthetics, Alexie uses traditional genres and subverts them into Native narratives of resistance and survivance. The chapter explores the ways Alexie incooperates and decommissions Hollywood's generic formulars as part of his larger postindian project of aesthetic activism.