02139cam a2200361 i 4500 492512068 TxAuBib 20210306120000.0 191118s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780062979131 large print : paperback 0062979132 large print : paperback TxAuBib rda Erdrich, Louise,. The night watchman : a novel / Louise Erdrich. First Harper Large Print Edition. New York, NY : Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020] ℗2020. 612 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier It is 1953. Thomas Wazhushk is the night watchman at the first factory to open near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a prominent Chippewa Council member, trying to understand a new bill that is soon to be put before Congress. The US Government calls it an 'emancipation' bill; but it isn't about freedom - it threatens the rights of Native Americans to their land, their very identity. How can he fight this betrayal? Unlike most of the girls on the reservation, Pixie - 'Patrice' - Paranteau has no desire to wear herself down on a husband and kids. She works at the factory, earning barely enough to support her mother and brother, let alone her alcoholic father who sometimes returns home to bully her for money. But Patrice needs every penny to get if she's ever going to get to Minnesota to find her missing sister Vera. 20210306. Ojibwa Indians Fiction. Ojibwa Indians Government relations Fiction. Indians of North America North Dakota Fiction. Indians of North America Government relations Fiction. Watchmen Fiction. Large type books. Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation (N.D.) Fiction. North Dakota Fiction. Historical fiction.