The Night Watchman By : Louise Erdrich
Book Excerpt :
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., this powerful novel explores themes of love and death with lightness and gravity and unfolds with the elegant prose, sly humor, and depth of feeling of a master craftsman.Thomas Wazhashk is the night watchman at the jewel bearing plant, the first factory located near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a Chippewa Council member who is trying to understand the consequences of a new ?emancipation? bill on its way to the floor of the United States Congress. It is 1953 and he and the other council members know the bill isn?t about freedom; Congress is fed up with Indians. The bill is a ?termination? that threatens the rights of Native Americans to their land and their very identity. How can the government abandon treaties
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