TY  - SOUND
AU  - Erdrich,Louise
TI  - The night watchman
SN  - 9780062983855
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - [New York]
PB  - Harper Audio
KW  - Ojibwa Indians
KW  - Government relations
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Indians of North America
KW  - North Dakota
KW  - Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation (N.D.)
KW  - Novels
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Audiobooks
KW  - Historical fiction
N1  - Title from web page; Compact discs; Performed by the author
N2  - 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'?
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