![]() ![]() Ostensibly the policy will “emancipate” Indigenous people actually it will terminate the federal government’s treaty obligations, opening up tribal lands for public acquisition. The Night Watchman is based on letters that Erdrich’s grandfather wrote to 1953 to protest a proposed new policy regarding Native Americans. government, that I had to make the connection here. I don’t normally write about anything political, but the timing was so fortuitous, and Erdrich’s book so wrenching about the relationship between Native American and the U.S. ![]() of the Interior, which oversees the Bureau of Indian Affairs. I just finished the latest one, The Night Watchman, on the same day that Deb Haaland was confirmed as the first Native American woman to head the U.S. Years ago I read and enjoyed her first two novels, The Beet Queen and Love Medicine and I’ve been reading her books ever since. A new book by Louise Erdrich is always an event. ![]()
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