The night watchman (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection): a novel
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Colorado State Library Resources - STAFF RETRIEVAL
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FOR LIBRARY USE ONLY
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Colorado State Library Resources - STAFF RETRIEVAL | FOR LIBRARY USE ONLY | THESE COPIES ARE LOANED TO LIBRARIES FOR BOOK CLUB USE ONLY. | On Shelf |
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Dysfunctional families -- Fiction.
Fiction.
Indian termination policy -- Fiction.
Indians of North America -- Government relations -- Fiction.
Indians of North America -- North Dakota -- Fiction.
Missing persons -- Fiction.
Novels.
Ojibwa Indians -- Fiction.
Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians of North Dakota -- Officials and employees -- Fiction.
Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation (N.D.) -- Fiction.
Fiction.
Indian termination policy -- Fiction.
Indians of North America -- Government relations -- Fiction.
Indians of North America -- North Dakota -- Fiction.
Missing persons -- Fiction.
Novels.
Ojibwa Indians -- Fiction.
Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians of North Dakota -- Officials and employees -- Fiction.
Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation (N.D.) -- Fiction.
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8 books in one bag 21 cm. AUDIOBOOK, LARGE PRINT, BRAILLE AVAILABLE FROM COLORADO TALKING BOOK LIBRARY
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English
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BOOKS LOANED TO LIBRARIES FOR BOOK CLUB USE ONLY! Sponsored by the Colorado State Library Book Club Project.
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Based on the extraordinary life of Louis Erdrich's grandfather Patrick Gourneau, who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington, with lightness and gravity, and unfolds with the elegant prose, sly humor, and depth of feeling of a literary master. Thomas Wazhashk is the night watchman at the jewel-bearing plant, the first factory located near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a Chippewa council member who is trying to understand the consequences of a new "emancipation" bill on its way to the floor of the United States Congress. It is 1953 and he and the other council members know the bill isn't about freedom: Congress is fed up with Inidans. The bill is a "termination" that threatens the rights of Native Americans to their land and their very identity. How can the governnment abandon treaties made in good faith with Native Americans "for as long as the grasses shall grow, and the rivers run"? Since graduating from high school, Pixie Paranteau has insisted that everyone call her Patrice. She makes jewel bearings at the plant, a job that pays barely enough to support her mother and younger brother. Patrice's alcoholic father returns home sporadically to terrorize his wife and children, and to bully Patrice for money. But Patrice needs every penny to follow her beloved older sister, Vera, who moved to the big city of Minneapolis. Vera may have disappeared; she hasn't been in touch in months and is rumored to have had a baby. Determined to find Vera and her child, Patrice makes a fateful trip to Minnesota that introduces her to unexpected forms of exploitation and violence and endangers her life. Thomas and Patrice live in a reservation community. We also come to know young Chippewa boxer Wood Mountain and his mother, Juggie Blue, and Patrice's best friend, Valentine, as well as Hay Stack Barnes, the white high school math teacher and boxing coach who is hopelessly in love with Patrice. In The Night Watchman, Louise Erdrich creates a fictional world populated with memorable characters who are forced to grapple with the worst and best impulses of human nature. Illuminating the loves and lives, the desires and ambitions, of these characters with compassion, wit, and intelligence, The Night Watchman is a majestic work of fiction from one of themost acclaimed writers of our time. --,Back cover.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Erdrich, L. (2021). The night watchman (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection): a novel (First Harper Perennial edition.). Harper Perennial.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Erdrich, Louise. 2021. The Night Watchman (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection): A Novel. Harper Perennial.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Erdrich, Louise. The Night Watchman (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection): A Novel Harper Perennial, 2021.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Erdrich, Louise. The Night Watchman (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection): A Novel First Harper Perennial edition., Harper Perennial, 2021.
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