The night watchman : a novel
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, their very identity. How can he fight this betrayal? Unlike most of the girls on the reservation, Pixie -- 'Patrice' -- Paranteau has no desire to wear herself down on a husband and kids. She works at the factory, earning barely enough to support her mother and brother, let alone her alcoholic father who sometimes returns home to bully her for money. But Patrice needs every penny to get if she's ever going to get to Minnesota to find her missing sister Vera.
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Indigenous peoples > North Dakota > Fiction. Ojibwe > Fiction. Indigenous peoples > United States > Government relations > Fiction. |
Genre |
Historical fiction. |
- ISBN: 9780062671189
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Physical Description
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451 pages ; 24 cm - Edition First edition.
- Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2020.
Content descriptions
General Note: | NFPL Indigenous Collection. |
Awards Note: | Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2021. |