![]() ![]() Thomas, the night watchman for the local jewel plant, also serves as a council member who is working to combat Resolution 108. Readers are introduced to the two main protagonists, Thomas Wazhashk and Patrice “Pixie” Paranteau, members of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa. has caused and overlooked time and time again in Indigenous peoples’ history-including at the novel’s time of publication, during the spread of COVID-19. Based on her grandfather’s life, Erdrich’s latest novel is an acute and moving depiction of the marginalization and oppression that the U.S. ![]() ![]() “On August 1, 1953, the United States Congress announced House Concurrent Resolution 108, a bill to abrogate nation-to-nation treaties, which had been made with American Indian Natives for ‘as long as the grass grows and the rivers flow.’ The Announcement called for the eventual termination of all tribes, and the immediate termination of five tribes, including the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa.”Ī central plotline of The Night Watchman (HarperCollins, 2020) becomes apparent immediately through Louise Erdrich’s prologue: the fight for basic human rights. ![]()
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