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Title The night watchman : a novel / Louise Erdrich.
Author Erdrich, Louise, author.
Publisher New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2020]
Copyright ©2020
Description 451 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Edition First edition.
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 EI-Adult Collection  ERDRI Nearby on shelf  30626003538432 03-26-24  AVAILABLE
 EI-Adult Collection  ERDRI  30626003538390 12-20-23  AVAILABLE
Summary Thomas Wazhushk 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 Indians. The bill is a 'termination' that threatens the rights of Native Americans to their land and their very identity. How can the government abandon treaties made in good faith with Native Americans 'for as long as the grasses shall grow, and the rivers run'?
Awards Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
Subject Indians of North America -- North Dakota -- Fiction.
Indians of North America -- Government relations -- Fiction.
Indian termination policy -- Fiction.
Watchmen -- Fiction.
Ojibwa Indians -- Fiction.
Cultural property -- Fiction.
North Dakota -- Fiction.
Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians of North Dakota -- Officials and employees -- Fiction.
Genre Historical fiction.
Other title Night watch man
ISBN 9780062671189
0062671189
9780062671196