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This 5 page paper reviews Louise Erdrich's Tracks, a 1988 novel about Chippewa Indians living in North Dakota. The book analyzes the major characters of Pauline, Nanapush, Margaret and Fleur and how their struggles reflect the overall struggle of the Native Americans to hold onto what is left of their land and their dignity. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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Wahpeton, North Dakota. Her parents worked for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, which gave Erdrich an even deeper understanding of Native American issues. After receiving her Masters degree
from Johns Hopkins University, Louise Erdrich embarked on a creative literary journey which would include novels, short stories, poems and essays featuring Native American subjects. Early in her career, Louise
Erdrich pledged to smash the Native American stereotypes which had been prevalent in American literature for hundreds of years and present them as a complex, troubled and honorable people who
have struggled to maintain their dignity despite generations of oppression. Her novel trilogy of Love Medicine (1984), The Beet Queen (1986) and Tracks (1988) charted the trials and tribulations
of generations of Chippewa inhabitants in fictitious Argus, North Dakota. Relying upon her own upbringing in North Dakota, the Native American stories her grandmother told her as a child,
and her creative imagination, Louise Erdrich has created a saga as realistic as William Faulkners series on lively residents of Yoknapatawpha County. Although it is the final entry in the
trilogy, Tracks is set before the other two novels, in the early twentieth century, when the Native Americans were playing the all-too-familiar role of attempting to hold on what remained
of their land. The episodic style employed by Erdrich might be difficult for readers to follow if they have not read Love Medicine or The Beet Queen. This
paper was sold by Paper Store, Inc. The narration in Tracks features the alternating voices of Pauline Puyat, the eccentric (some might say crazy) mother of Marie Lazarre, who
was featured in Love Medicine, and Nanapush, the beloved tribal elder who was an accomplished storyteller and practitioner of magic. Pauline is a half-breed mystic tormented between being
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