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Louise Erdrich on Her Fiction: “I’m Writing Out of the Mixture of Cultures”

2015

Receiving the Library of Congress prize for American fiction, Erdrich spoke of how her writing emerged from the ‘great loss’ of Native Americans

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Who Owns the Land?

No one disputes that decades ago local Indians were unfairly deprived of hundreds of thousands of acres that were guaranteed to them in perpetuity by solemn treaty; yet no one can agree about what should be done to correct that injustice today.

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Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris
1988
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Louise Erdrich on Her Personal Connection to Native Peoples’ Fight for Survival

Erdrich's novel, The Night Watchman, was inspired by her grandfather, who chaired the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa and fought a Congressional initiative to move native people off their land.

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2020
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Indigenous Rights