The night watchman /
Erdrich, Louise,
The night watchman / Louise Erdrich. - Unabridged. - 11 audio discs (13 hr., 45 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. - 134500
Title from web page. Compact discs.
Performed by the author.
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'?
9780062983855 0062983857 9780063063945 0063063948
12444360
30dghd Blackstone Publishing 10dghd Blackstone Publishing
Ojibwa Indians--Government relations--Fiction.
Indians of North America--North Dakota--Fiction.
Indians of North America--Government relations--Fiction.
Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation (N.D.)--Fiction.
Novels.
Audiobooks.
Historical fiction.
The night watchman / Louise Erdrich. - Unabridged. - 11 audio discs (13 hr., 45 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. - 134500
Title from web page. Compact discs.
Performed by the author.
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'?
9780062983855 0062983857 9780063063945 0063063948
12444360
30dghd Blackstone Publishing 10dghd Blackstone Publishing
Ojibwa Indians--Government relations--Fiction.
Indians of North America--North Dakota--Fiction.
Indians of North America--Government relations--Fiction.
Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation (N.D.)--Fiction.
Novels.
Audiobooks.
Historical fiction.