The Night Watchman

The Night WatchmanWinner of the Pulitzer Prize. "Erdrich at her radiant best" Booklist Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award winning author Louise Erdrichs grandfather who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington, D. C., this powerful novel explores themes of love and death with lightness and gravity and unfolds with the elegant prose, sly humor, and depth of feeling

and a testament to just how much a crime novel can achieve

With a suitcase full of sausages and a master butcher's precious knife set

Native American children have long been subject to removal from their homes for placement in residential schools and

“Far greater even than the loss of land

" —Tommy Orange

A haunting novel spanning several generations

children's books

Her journey links ancient stone paintings with a magical island where a bookish recluse built an extraordinary library

Dakota Sioux artist Mary Sully was the great-granddaughter of respected nineteenth-century portraitist Thomas Sully

Tommy Orange writes of the plight of the urban Native American

To sing she motions simultaneously with her hands

And she never thought she'd be one of the first Native American women in Congress