TY  - BOOK
AU  - Erdrich,Louise
TI  - The night watchman: a novel 
SN  - 9780062671189
AV  - PS3555.R42 N54 2020
U1  - 813/.54 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
KW  - Indians of North America
KW  - North Dakota
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Ojibwa Indians
KW  - Indians termination policy
KW  - Watchmen
KW  - Cultural Heritage
KW  - Government relations
KW  - Indian termination policy
KW  - Dysfunctional families
KW  - Missing persons
KW  - Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation (N.D.)
KW  - Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians of North Dakota
KW  - Officials and employees
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - lcgft
N2  - 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. --
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