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Book excerpt: The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
In The Night Watchman (HarperCollins), the protagonist, Thomas Wazhashk, fights to protect the rights of Native Americans, from North Dakota all the way to the halls of Congress.
Read an excerpt below: HarperCollins
Turtle Mountain Jewel Bearing Plant
Thomas Wazhashk removed his thermos from his armpit and set it on the steel desk alongside his scuffed briefcase. His work jacket went on the chair, his lunch box on the cold windowsill. When he took off his padded tractor hat, a crab apple fell from the earflap. A gift from his daughter Fee. He caught the apple and put it out on the desktop to admire. Then punched his time card. Midnight. He picked up the key ring, a company flashlight, and walked the perimeter of the main floor.
How will we remember 2020? It was a year unlike any other in our lifetime one where the burdens and the blessings seemed to resonate more than we expected. While I don’t have the words to comfort all of the hardships we each faced, I know the value of escaping into a book. This year was a watershed year for Native publishing, with more wonderful texts coming to market than I can list in this column. Yet, what follows are the books I feel fortunate to have discovered, and ones I am certain you will come to treasure.
When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through is the most important book published this decade. Edited by Joy Harjo (Muscogee), LeAnne Howe (Choctaw), Jennifer Elise Foerster (Muscogee), and others, this enthralling anthology collects 161 Native poets who speak to the resilience of Indigenous voices through the generations. It’s divided into geographic regions, with poets listed chronologically according to their birth. The stanzas run the gamut of e
Louise Erdrich is well-known for her many books, including
Love Medicine, the 1984 National Book Critics Circle Award-winning book. This and later works focus on the theme of justice and the ways in which Native Americans struggle to obtain it. 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. But with her latest work,
The Night Watchman, she has based the character of protagonist Thomas Wazhashk on an actual member of her family.
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. This character is based on Erdrich’s maternal grandfather. In the 1950s, he held that overnight job while also having to tussle with the U.S. senator who was trying to terminate the tribe, moving the members off the land that was res
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