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Louise Erdrich on indigenous rights

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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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Louise Erdrich on Faces of America, Part 2

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Louise Erdrich
2010
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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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Louise Erdrich
2020
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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 Faces of America, Part 4

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Louise Erdrich
2010
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Tracks

From award-winning, New York Times–bestselling author Louise Erdrich comes an arresting, lyrical novel set in North Dakota at a time when Indian tribes were struggling to keep what little remained of their lands. Tracks is a tale of passion and deep unrest.

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Louise Erdrich
2004
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The Plague of Doves

A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, The Plague of Doves—the first part of a loose trilogy that includes the National Book Award-winning The Round House and LaRose—is a gripping novel about a long-unsolved crime in a small North Dakota town and how, years later, the consequences are still being felt by...

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Louise Erdrich
2009
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Antelope Woman

This updated edition of National Book Award–winning and New York Times–bestselling author Louise Erdrich’s 1998 novel now features fascinating new content, a new title, new cover art, and a new foreword by the author—a riveting story that explores tensions between Native American and white...

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Louise Erdrich
2016
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Four Souls

From New York Times–bestselling author Louise Erdrich comes a haunting novel that continues the rich and enthralling Ojibwe saga begun in her novel Tracks.

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Louise Erdrich
2017
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Louise Erdrich, “The Night Watchman”

Louise Erdrich discusses her novel, "The Night Watchman", at Politics and Prose.

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Louise Erdrich
2020
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