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Louise Erdrich



Louise Erdrich, MA, is an award-winning and bestselling American author and poet. She has written fiction, nonfiction, and children’s books, as well as a memoir of pregnancy and early parenthood. Erdrich is an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, and many of her books feature Native American characters, history, and locations. She is also the owner of a small independent book store, Birchbark Books, in Minneapolis that focuses on Native American literature.

Louise Erdrich
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Louise Erdrich on Faces of America, Part 1

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Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country: Traveling Through the Land of My Ancestors

In Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country, Erdrich takes us on an illuminating tour through the terrain her ancestors have inhabited for centuries: the lakes and islands of southern Ontario.

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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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Louise Erdrich on Faces of America, Part 4

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The Painted Drum

From the author of the National Book Award–winner The Round House, Louise Erdrich's breathtaking, lyrical novel of a priceless Ojibwe artifact and the effect it has had on those who have come into contact with it over the years.

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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 on Faces of America, Part 2

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We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World

In this significant collection, Indigenous writers and writers of color bear witness to one of the most unsettling years in the history of the United States.

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The Night Watchman

Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award–winning author Louise Erdrich’s grandfather who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington, D.C.

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The Bingo Palace

From award-winning, New York Times–bestselling author Louise Erdrich comes this novel of spiritual death, lyrical prose, and wild hope: a striking, luminous chapter in Erdrich’s Ojibwe saga.

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