The Game Of Silence Louise Erdrich Summary

An emphasis on family is one of the central facets of Native American culture. There is a sense of community between Native American. Louise Erdrich, a Chippewa Indian herself, writes a gripping bildungsroman about a thirteen year old boy named Joe who experiences all forms of family on the Native American Reserve where he lives. He learns to deal with the challenges of a blood family, witnesses toxic family relationships, and experiences a family-like love from the members of the community. In her book, The Round House, Louise Erdrich depicts three definitions of the word family and shows how these relationships affect Joe’s development into an adult.

The main points of the book are little harder for me to pin down and the author himself states in the preface “Most of all, I wanted to write a story.” Indians at this time were considered savages and were to be feared. Their savagery is shown with the attack on Deerfield and the subsequent journey to Canada. But he then questions the idea in the same space with statements like “They can leave her by the trail- where she would soon perish from exposure and exhaustion. Or they can kill her “at one stroke”- quickly without much pain.”

Chapter 5 from On The Rez informs the reader on different cultural as well as historical information regarding Native Americans. Frazier explains historical information that pulls emotion from the reader. Throughout the book, Frazier continues to bring up Native American traditions, conversely, chapter 5 explains situations different tribes went through. Reading chapter 5 in On The Rez has changed my opinion of the reasons behind Frazier’s book.

The book that I decided to read was Night Flying Woman by Ignatia Broker. The tribal identity in the book was Oibwe from the White Earth Band. Ms. Broker started out the book from the present day in Minneapolis where she grew up. There wasn’t much culture to be seen, and the younger generations were getting too lost in the new world. Ms. Broker made sure to mention that she still taught her children the Ojibwe ways, and told them the stories that her grandmother had once told her. Throughout Ignatia Broker’s introductory chapter, we got a sense of the amount of respect she had for you great-great grandmother Oona, or Night Flying Woman.

Lives for Native Americans on reservations have never quite been easy. There are many struggles that most outsiders are completely oblivious about. In her book The Roundhouse, Louise Erdrich brings those problems to light. She gives her readers a feel of what it is like to be Native American by illustrating the struggles through the life of Joe, a 13-year-old Native American boy living on a North Dakota reservation. This book explores an avenue of advocacy against social injustices. The most observable plight Joe suffers is figuring out how to deal with the injustice acted against his mother, which has caused strife within his entire family and within

While growing up Michael Dorris never encountered a Native American literary character that he could relate too, and being of Modoc Tribe of California descent, this was something that was very important to him. After graduating from Georgetown University, and earning a Master’s Degree at Yale, Dorris began to create these characters and ideas that he had longed for himself during childhood. He married his literary partner, Louise Erdrich, who was also of Native American descent. They had three children together, plus the three that Dorris had adopted, all of which were born on Native American reservations. All three of his adopted children suffered from fetal alcohol syndrome. During a twenty year period before Dorris’ death, he published fourteen books and over one hundred articles. In 1987 he published his first novel “A Yellow Raft in Blue Water.”

Edrich entertains the audience with her book. However, the book is education people in so many ways. She described an American-Native family. The reason perhaps is that because she is half an American-Native from her mother side. She used her heritage to develop her characters so that her characters in the books which are also Native American are also are real. Thus, when something is real people get educated maybe not in a direct way, but it can be the indirect way.

Louise Erdrich explores the inner conflicts of an Indian tribe in her novel Tracks. By the end of the novel, the tribes’ accord is broken by the lure of the white man’s money and land reform. The divisions among the tribe are epitomized by the physical separation of the Chippewa people into different colors that correspond to their different land allotments. However, one chapter in particular contrasts with the tribe’s tendency towards discord. Chapter 5, in which Nanapush and Eli overcome their differences and unite in an attempt to avoid starvation lends hope to the ominous series of events throughout Tracks which show conflict developing from unity. The great snow storm they experience together not

In the chapter “Fleur” from the novel Tracks, Louise Erdrich’s mythical portrayals of the protagonist, Fleur, reveal the clash between the culture of Native Americans and European Americans. Erdrich intertwines the abilities of humans and nature through Fleur’s experiences as a Native American woman in a society dominated by White males. Fleur’s unconventional behavior sets her apart from her community heading her to leave the reservation and go to Argus, a predominantly White town. Pauline, a mixed blood girl living in Argus, narrates Fleur’s time in the town, portraying her as an admirable figure. Erdrich characterization of the White men as the seemingly dominant power and Fleur as the abused character reflects the realities of European

After the loss and a difficult time in her life, she managed to continue to write novels. She then took a short break from writing and after coming back to write some more, she won the National Book Award for her novel, The Round House (2012). Erdrich also owns an independent bookstore where she lives, in Minneapolis, Minnesota which specializes in Native American literature and Ojibwe-language publications. She is proud of her Ojibwe heritage that she is committed to preserve the Ojibwe language and culture that she eventually formed the Birchbark House Fund to support indigenous language revitalization. Also, along with her sisters, they established Wiigwaas Press to publish literary material in Ojibwe and bilingual Ojibwe/English. Her Indian heritage is surely in her heart.

     Throughout Ceremony, the author, Leslie Silko, displays the internal struggle that the American Indians faced at that time in history. She displays this struggle between good and evil in several parts of the book. One is the myth explaining the origin of the white man.

Today’s advances in technologies and ideas had made doing many things more efficient. However, with the creation of these new short-cuts, many traditions tend to be forgotten overtime. The story Night Flying Woman by Ignatia Broker is about the life of an Ojibway Native American named Ne-bo-wi-se-gwe, or Oona. Throughout the course of her life, many things were forced to change after white settlers arrived. Oona and her people tried their hardest to adapt to the changes around them while keeping their traditions alive.

In Louise Erdrich’s Famous work of poetry, “Indian Boarding School: The Runaways”, shows how the context of the work and the author play major roles in understanding the poem from different aspects and angles to see between the lines of what we really call life. The Author Louise Erdrich is known for being one of the most significant writers of the second wave of the Native American Renaissance. She is a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians and her writing on Native American literature is seen throughout the world. Through word decision, repetition, and symbolism bringing out her incredibly fierce tones, the author recalls the hurt and enduring impacts of Native American children being forced to attend Indian boarding schools. These schools emerged of a post-Civil War America in an effort to educate and also “civilize” the American Indian people.

Jeannette C. Armstrong proved this in her works. She is a novelist, teacher and activist and is thought to be the grandniece of the Morning Dove, who was believed to be the first Native American woman novelist. (Shepard 177). Aboriginal literature has made an impact on the dominant Canadian literature, unfortunately most of it is unknown, ignored, unacknowledged, misinterpreted, or misunderstood.

Marilyn Dumont, a successful Metis poet, is widely recognized for her powerful yet subtle approach to enlightening the history of shadowed civilization, nearly brought to the brink of extinction by ethnocentrism and injustice. Being raised in a town surrounded by reserves, with a father who speaks fluent Cree, allowed me to form an appreciation for the perseverant culture, many fail to recognize. In “The land she came from,” Dumont utilizes main character Betsy Brass, known as “shiny black bird woman” to represent the fearlessness, and determinant Indigenous peoples had been dealing with such mass tragedy. Concrete walls made of starvation, and injustice placed by European settlers “when it all went wrong,” forced Indigenous people to surrender everything they had, as a reminder that, the only power Indigenous people held at the time, was that of their mind (Dumont 43). Author Marilyn Dumont employs the use of literary