Louise Erdrich’s novel The Night Watchman (2020) won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. The book was inspired by Erdrich’s maternal grandfather, Patrick Gourneau, who served as a tribal chairman of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa. Set in the 1950s, the book centers on a small community of Native people who travel to Washington, D.C., to fight a proposed termination bill, which seeks to abolish Native tribes by selling their land and relocating them to urban areas.
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