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Louise Erdrich, MA, is an award-winning and bestselling American author and poet. She has written fiction, nonfiction, and children’s books, as well as a memoir of pregnancy and early parenthood. Erdrich is an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, and many of her books feature Native American characters, history, and locations. She is also the owner of a small independent book store, Birchbark Books, in Minneapolis that focuses on Native American literature.

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Louise Erdrich on Her Personal Connection to Native Peoples’ Fight for Survival

Erdrich's novel, The Night Watchman, was inspired by her grandfather, who chaired the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa and fought a Congressional initiative to move native people off their land.

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Who Owns the Land?

No one disputes that decades ago local Indians were unfairly deprived of hundreds of thousands of acres that were guaranteed to them in perpetuity by solemn treaty; yet no one can agree about what should be done to correct that injustice today.

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Louise Erdrich

The Poetry Foundation's biography of poet and author Louise Erdrich

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How to Stop a Black Snake

The Black Snake is what Lakota people call the Dakota Access Pipeline.

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Indigenous Fashion Is More Than Tradition

Indigenous people create tribally specific clothing for many reasons—to express belonging, enter ceremony, show resistance, and to dance.

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Louise Erdrich on Her Fiction: “I’m Writing Out of the Mixture of Cultures”

Receiving the Library of Congress prize for American fiction, Erdrich spoke of how her writing emerged from the ‘great loss’ of Native Americans

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