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Erdrich, LouiseErdrich, Louise
Summary: 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,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Erdrich 2020Erdrich, Louise
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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ERDErdrich, Louise
Summary: North Dakota, late summer, 1999. Landreaux Iron stalks a deer along the edge of the property bordering his own. He shoots with easy confidence - but when the buck springs away, Landreaux realizes he's hit something else, a blur he saw as he squeezed the trigger. When he staggers closer, he realizes he has killed his neighbor's five-year-old son, Dusty Ravich. The youngest child of his friend...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ERDCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ERDErdrich, Louise
Summary: Landreaux Iron stalks a deer along the edge of the property bordering his own. He shoots with easy confidence -- but when the buck springs away, Landreaux realizes he's hit something else. When he staggers closer, he realizes he has killed his neighbor's five-year-old son, Dusty. The youngest child of his friend and neighbor, Peter Ravich, Dusty was best friends with Landreaux's five-year-old...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ERDErdrich, Louise
Summary: North Dakota, 1999. Landreaux Iron accidentally shoots and kills five-year-old Dusty Ravich, the son of his neighbors. The two families have always been close; Dusty was best friends with Landreaux's son LaRose. Horrified, Landreaux turns to tradition--prayer in an Ojibwe sweat lodge--for guidance, and finds a way forward. Following an ancient means of atonement, he and his wife will give...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2016