![]() ![]() The Turtle Mountain Band, thanks to the incredible efforts of her grandfather and others, did not. Two dozen of the 113 tribes this happened to became extinct, Erdrich notes. Terminate their protected status guaranteed in treaties, end their government health care and education, abolish tribes, relocate them from reservations to cities, stop any kind of aid or payments for taking their land. ![]() government planned to “emancipate” Indians, band by band and tribe by tribe, from their Indianness. “The Night Watchman,” in bookstores Tuesday, is set in Turtle Mountain in the 1950s, a time when the U.S. He had the sort of quality that you don’t really run into in politics very often, that sort of gentility. “My grandfather” - Aunishenaubay Patrick Gourneau, on whom the character of Thomas is closely based - “was the most kind person. If it passes, its policies would eliminate all federal services to Indians, move families off their reservations and almost certainly destroy the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa.Īnd yet before heading home, Thomas stops at the office of the bill’s author to thank him for listening to his testimony. Toward the end of Louise Erdrich’s new novel, a character named Thomas Wazhashk heads to Washington, D.C., to testify against a bill. ![]()
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