![]() ![]() ![]() “It’s giant corporations who have their eye on tiny scraps of land or want right-of-ways through tribal lands,” she says, referring to recent fights over pipeline routes. In the Wall Street Journal, Erdrich stated that she still worries about modern forms of Native American dispossession. She pieced together her grandfather’s letters, history and fiction to create a novel that is compelling and forces us to reckon with our nation’s past, as our current administration continues to strip away the sovereignty and identity of Native Americans. ![]() In the 1950’s he was a tribal leader of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa and an organizer and activist in the fight against the termination of nation-to nation treaties by the U.S. After years of creating fictional characters living on fictional reservations to tell important stories, she has tapped into the history of her own grandfather, the titular night watchman. The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich is nothing short of what is to be expected from one of our most prolific and important Native American voices. To quote a writer, we recently highlighted in our newsfeed, Grace Paley, “ Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.” Grace Paley took a lot of time away from writing to be an activist, however, the author of our March Book of the Month has powerfully found a way to do both. ![]()
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