The Night Watchman
Large Type - 2020 Adult Book / Large Print / Fiction / Historical / Erdrich, Louise None on shelf 2 requests on 1 copy
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It is 1953. Thomas Wazhashk 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.
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PUBLISHED
New York, NY : Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020]
Year Published: 2020
Description: 612 p.
Language: English
Format: Large Type
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780062979131
0062979132
SUBJECTS
Native Americans -- North Dakota -- Fiction.
Ojibwe People -- Fiction.
Native Americans -- Government relations -- Fiction.
Indigenous Peoples of North America.
Native American termination policy -- Fiction.
Dysfunctional families -- Fiction.
Missing persons -- Fiction.
Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians of North Dakota -- Officials and employees -- Fiction.
Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation (N.D.) -- Fiction.
Historical fiction.