What is the setting of Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie?

The primary physical setting of Reservation Blues is the Spokane Indian Reservation. Most of the action takes place on the reservation, and some of the peculiarities of life on the reservation as described by both the narrator and the characters give the place a distinctive quality. Few people besides those that have lived on a reservation or lived in a state of poverty can imagine subsisting almost entirely on government subsidized and inferior food products. The reservation residents refer to these items as "commodity foods." The reservation is also a place with a distinctive culture, and this unifying culture and belief system helps to make some of the harder-to-believe aspects of the novel, such as the instances involving the supernatural, ea