![]() ![]() Patrice is actually my grandfather's name. Highlights of the Interview with Louise Erdrich Thomas and Patrice live in this impoverished reservation community along with young Chippewa boxer Wood Mountain and his mother Juggie Blue, her niece and Patrice’s best friend Valentine, and Stack Barnes, the white high school math teacher and boxing coach who is hopelessly in love with Patrice. ![]() We also, here, follow 19-year-old Patrice, a smart young woman who is determined to find out what happened to her sister who’s gone missing. senator who was trying to terminate the tribe, moving the members off the land that was reserved for them. In the 1950s, he held that overnight job while also having to tussle with the U.S. This character is based on Erdrich’s maternal grandfather. In her new novel, The Night Watchman, Louise Erdirch’s protagonist, Thomas, keeps watch in a factory while he also tends to the affairs of the Turtle Mountain Band of the Chippewa people - as their tribal chair. But with her latest work, The Night Watchman, she has based the character of protagonist Thomas Wazhashk on an actual member of her family. She has always written about the Native American community she learned about in her childhood, and her early works document those lives of Native Americans. This and later works focus on the theme of justice and the ways in which Native Americans struggle to obtain it. Louise Erdrich is well-known for her many books, including Love Medicine, the 1984 National Book Critics Circle Award-winning book. ![]()
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