![]() ![]() ![]() Also like Erdrich’s grandfather, Thomas is a tribal leader contending with a resolution before Congress in 1953, HCR 108 targeted the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, among others, for “emancipation” - from their treaties, from their land, “from being Indians,” as Thomas rightly reads it, i.e., “termination.” The bones of this novel - a novel full of bones and ghosts - are actual events featuring real people, first among them Louise Erdrich’s grandfather, who, like Thomas Wazhashk, one of the book’s main characters, was a night watchman at a jewel bearing factory near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in North Dakota. ![]()
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