The night watchman : a novel

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Label

The night watchman : a novel

Title remainder

a novel

Statement of responsibility

Louise Erdrich

Creator

• Erdrich, Louise

Subject

• Indigenous peoples -- Government relations -- Fiction
• Indigenous peoples -- North Dakota -- Fiction
• Historical fiction
• Ojibwa -- Fiction

Genre

• Historical fiction
• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

It is 1953. Thomas Wazhushk is the night watchman at the first factory to open near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a prominent Chippewa Council member, trying to understand a new bill that is soon to be put before Congress. The US Government calls it an 'emancipation' bill; but it isn't about freedom -- it threatens the rights of Native Americans to their land, their very identity. How can he fight this betrayal? Unlike most of the girls on the reservation, Pixie -- 'Patrice' -- Paranteau has no desire to wear herself down on a husband and kids. She works at the factory, earning barely enough to support her mother and brother, let alone her alcoholic father who sometimes returns home to bully her for money. But Patrice needs every penny to get if she's ever going to get to Minnesota to find her missing sister Vera

Member of

• Indigenous collection

Cataloging source

NjBwBT

Dewey number

[Fic]

Index

no index present

Literary form

fiction

Series statement

Indigenous collection