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	The SALON Interview: Louise Erdrich
		Erdrich's parents worked for the Bureau of Indian Affairs as teachers on a nearby North Dakota reservation and she recalls that her father regularly recited memorized poetry -- Frost and Byron -- to her and her six siblings.
		Erdrich started her literary career as a poet, supporting herself by working at a Kentucky Fried Chicken and on road construction crews.
		At 41, Erdrich looks ten years younger, yet carries herself with the regal elegance of an elderly matriarch, speaking proprietarily of her characters, as if they were neighbors in the small town where she grew up.
	www.salon.com /weekly/interview960506.html (1585 words)

	Louise Erdrich
		Erdrich recognizes that the significant feature of antelope and deer is their split hooves, as seen in her frequent references to “hooved ones” rather than just deer or antelope.
		Erdrich makes explicit that she seeks to build images of women who are “attuned to their power and their honest nature, not the socialized nature and the embarrassed nature that says, ‘I can’t possibly accomplish this’” (Bruchac 1987, 82).
		Erdrich presents the Roy women thus: “daughters of the granddaughters of Blue Prairie Woman are wavy haired and lightened by the Roy blood.
	www.faculty.de.gcsu.edu /~mmagouli/antwife.htm (12746 words)

	Louise Erdrich
		Erdrich once told CA of the way in which her parents encouraged her writing: "My father used to give me a nickel for every story I wrote, and my mother wove strips of construction paper together and stapled them into book covers.
		Erdrich's first year at Dartmouth, 1972, was the year the college began admitting women, as well as the year the Native American studies department was established.
		Erdrich has been somewhat protective of her family's privacy and has stated the narrative actually describes a combination of her experience with several of her children.
	www.edwardsly.com /erdrich.htm (2393 words)

	About Louise Erdrich
		Erdrich replied, "Oh, a storyteller, a writer." Her own life story, as well as her novels and poems, are what make Louise Erdrich so widely known.
		Erdrich, the oldest of seven children, was born in Little Falls, Minnesota, on June 7, 1954.
		Erdrich's narrative technique ultimately accomplishes a holistic temporal view of the Anishinaabe culture in which present occurrences cannot be isolated from the past.
	www.english.uiuc.edu /maps/poets/a_f/erdrich/about.htm (3992 words)

	MSN Encarta - Louise Erdrich
		Born in Little Falls, Minnesota, and educated at Dartmouth College, Erdrich was the daughter of a German American father and a Chippewa mother.
		Erdrich earned a master's degree in creative writing at Johns Hopkins University in 1979, then went to Dartmouth as writer-in-residence.
		Erdrich spent a year with her husband researching fetal alcohol syndrome, from which his adopted son suffered, and collaborated with him on a book on the subject, The Broken Cord (1989).
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761557818/Louise_Erdrich.html (261 words)

	American Passages - Unit 1. Native Voices: Authors
		Erdrich's French-Chippewa mother and her German-American father were teachers for the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Wahpeton, Minnesota.
		Erdrich also held a variety of other jobs, such as lifeguard, waitress, prison poetry teacher, and construction flag signaler, which she has said greatly helped her writing.
		Critics have argued that Erdrich's character Gerry Morrisey is based both on this trickster/ cultural hero (hence his supernatural ability to escape) and on Leonard Peltier—the Chippewa hero and activist.
	www.learner.org /amerpass/unit01/authors-2.html (587 words)

	'Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country' by Louise Erdrich
		Louise Erdrich's new book of nonfiction is deceptively small -- just four chapters running a little more than 150 pages.
		A year and a half later, Erdrich's 18-month-old daughter is her traveling companion to Lake of the Woods, a place that holds great meaning for the writer and her daughter and the father of her baby.
		The father of Erdrich's baby is from the Canadian side of Lake of the Woods, and as a traditional healer and teacher, he knows the lake.
	www.post-gazette.com /books/reviews/20030713erdrich0713fnp5.asp (540 words)

	Longman Anthology of Short Fiction Online Chapter 2 -- Louise Erdrich (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Erdrich’s exploration of life on a fictional North Dakota reservation has provided her with enough material for four collections of linked short stories.
		Erdrich employs many different narrators, and considerable humor, to present a non-judgmental, and non-chronological, record of three generations of families on the reservation.
		Erdrich’s literary works are often compared and studied along with those of other late 20th century Native American writers.
	occawlonline.pearsoned.com /bookbind/pubbooks/gioialasf_abl/chapter2/custom48/deluxe-content.html (184 words)

	Gale - Free Resources - Women's History - Biographies - Louise Erdrich (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Erdrich's mother was born on the Turtle Mountain Chippewa reservation, where her grandfather was tribal chairman, and though she never lived on the reservation, Erdrich visited it often.
		Erdrich entered Dartmouth College in 1972, the year the college began admitting women, as well as the year the Native American studies department was established.
		Erdrich's works, linked by recurring characters who are victims of fate and the patterns set by their elders, are structured like intricate puzzles in which bits of information about individuals and their relations to one another are slowly released in a seemingly random order, until three-dimensional characters--with a future and a past--are revealed.
	www.galegroup.com /free_resources/whm/bio/erdrich_l.htm (6454 words)

	Style: "Where the Maps Stopped": The Aesthetics of Borders in Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine and Tracks
		Erdrich's early novels, Love Medicine (1984, 1993) and The Beet Queen (1986), have received the highest praise for their stylistic beauty and lyricism, yet they also have been criticized for a lack of psychological depth and inattention to the historical and political conditions of oppression suffered by Native American characters.
		In her novels about Native American characters confined within and defined by the borders of a reservation and the boundaries of ethnic definition, Erdrich (who is herself part Chippewa, part German American) uses the concept of the border as metaphor and narrative strategy for a newly imagined negotiation of individual and cultural identity.
		Erdrich does not install a new monolithic viewpoint, moving the margins to the center; instead she causes the margins to proliferate.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2342/is_1_33/ai_58055909 (1264 words)

	Louise Erdrich: Brief Bio and Assignment
		Louise Erdrich was born in Little Falls, Minnesota to a German-American father and a Chippewa mother.
		Erdrich herself is a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa.
		Erdrich started her literary career as a poet, supporting herself by working at a Kentucky Fried Chicken, on road construction crews, and as a beet weeder.
	www.unlv.edu /faculty/droisen/erdrich.htm (817 words)

	Encyclopedia: Louise Erdrich
		Karen Louise Erdrich (born June 7, 1954) is a Native American (Chippewa) author of novels, poetry, and children's books.
		Erdrich is the daughter of an Ojibwa Indian mother and a German-American father, and her work is focused on Native American themes.
		June 7 is the 158th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (159th in leap years), with 207 days remaining.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Louise-Erdrich (284 words)

	The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse, Louise Erdrich - HarperAcademic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A passionate and poetic writer, Louise Erdrich lends both elegance and wit to her most ambitious novel to date.
		About the Author: Louise Erdrich was born in 1954, the oldest of seven children, and grew up in Wahpeton, North Dakota, where her Ojibwa-French mother and German-American father taught at a Bureau of Indian Affairs School.
		During and after college, Erdrich held a variety of jobs: She hoed sugar beets in Wahpeton; waitressed in Boston, Syracuse and elsewhere; worked in a state mental hospital in Vermont; taught poetry in prisons and schools in North Dakota; worked on a construction site; and edited The Circle, a Boston Indian Council newspaper.
	www.harperacademic.com /catalog/guide_xml.asp?isbn=0060187271 (1220 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Four Souls : A Novel (Erdrich, Louise) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Louise Erdrich's 1988 novel Tracks was just such a book, a rich fictional tapestry of Native American life at the turn of the century.
		Louise Erdrich, who wrote the bestseller TRACKS, which is a precursor to FOUR SOULS, seems to know the minds, voices and ways of the Ojibwe Indians.
		Erdrich is lyrical and brilliant and tells her story as an insider without bias or sentimentality.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0066209757?v=glance (3356 words)

	City Pages - LOUISE ERDRICH
		Erdrich grew up in these flatlands (she lives in Minneapolis today), where 10,000 Chippewa live on and off reservations among white farmers and laborers, and where, of course, land and fortune are inextricably entwined.
		Erdrich's land, as much as it is Turtle Mountain, is the constant tension between the old ways and assimilation, a tension that appears in details.
		Erdrich never lets these evils exist as the motor of a morality play, but rather as part of the background that informs her characters.
	www.citypages.com /databank/19/927/article5965.asp (1253 words)

	Louise Erdrich ~ A Feast of Words (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Erdrich writes with a cohesive vision of a Faulkner in love with his home, with the precision of Leslie Silko, and with a feminine sensibility as sensual, strong, and thoughtful as that of Margaret Atwood; she has staked out the Pembina region (the northeast quadrant of North Dakota) as her Yoknapatawpha County.
		There is an essential difference between the sensibilities of a Margaret Atwood or a Leslie Silko and Louise Erdrich, for all the "feminine sensibility" of each.
		And we are a bit patronizing about Erdrich's soft eyes and soft mouth and her stews and the blankets tucked around sad faces.
	dancingbadger.com /erdrich.htm (1016 words)

	Louise Erdrich - Short Stories
		Erdrich recounted the oral traditions of her family in a 1991 Writers Digest interview, "The people in our families made everything into a story...I suppose that when you grow up constantly hearing the stories rise, break and fall, it gets into you somehow."
		Erdrich attended Dartmouth in 1972, where she caught the attention of one of her professors, who recognized a burgeoning poetic talent in her young student.
		Erdrich’s literary ascent began in 1982, after she won the Nelson Algren fiction competition with her short story, "The World’s Greatest Fisherman", which later became the first chapter of her novel, Love Medicine, a collection of interrelated short stories featuring four families: the Kashpaws, the Lamartines, the Pillagers, and the Morrisseys.
	www.bellaonline.com /articles/art8662.asp (688 words)

	Four Souls by Louise Erdrich - read reviews
		In this novel, Erdrich does not paint in fl and white; a character may be innocent and unfairly dealt with in one area, but then turn around and do the same thing to someone else.
		The “snare” imagery that Erdrich uses so effectively in describing Fleur’s journey from murder to marriage is also used to describe how her father Nanapush ends up addressing the entire tribe wearing a woman’s dress.
		Erdrich introduces her theme of illicit love with the arrival of Father Gregory, a priest sent to help Agnes with her duties.
	www.mostlyfiction.com /west/erdrich.htm (3510 words)

	Louise Erdrich
		Karen Louise Erdrich was born in Little Falls, Minnesota on June 7, 1954.
		As Erdrich was growing up, her parents worked in Wahpeton, North Dakota at the Bureau of Indian Affairs School.
		Erdrich and Dorris became well known for their literature, sometimes being called the "poster couple of multicultural literature" (Jones 82).
	www.geocities.com /tonnelso (187 words)

	Powell's Books - Tracks by Louise Erdrich (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Erdrich is, as always, the generous kind of storyteller, passing along not only everything her characters know, but the story of the stories as well.
		Erdrich is particularly successful in portraying the concealed nightmares that twitch at the surface of everyday events.
		Louise Erdrich is the author of eight novels, including the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning Love Medicine and the National Book Award finalist The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse, as well as poetry, children's books, and a memoir.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=2-0060972459-8 (1006 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Louise Erdrich
		Erdrich, (Karen) Louise, born in 1954, American writer, whose work focuses on Native American characters.
		Cogewea, the Half-Blood (1927) by Mourning Dove (Colville), also known as Christine Quintasket, was one of the first novels written by a Native...
		In the second half of the century Native American novelists began reassessing the experience of their cultures.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Louise_Erdrich.html (116 words)

	Louise Erdrich: The Online Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Erdrich states that her characters are diverse in language skills - some have a flair for language, some are inarticulate.
		Erdrich is puzzled/annoyed by Baileys question of an explicit moral statement.
		Erdrich jokes about how when missionaries came with the book Indians had all the land, and that now the missionaries have all the land and Indians only the book.
	www.west.asu.edu /jbuenke/erdrich/media.html (762 words)

	A Reader's Guide to the Novels of Louise Erdrich (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		One of the most widely read and prolific contemporary Native American writers, Louise Erdrich is highly praised for her experimental narratives and richly complex characters.
		Interweaving plots, characters, locations, and perspectives, Erdrich's writing carries readers into a fictional maze that is both compelling and entertaining, yet sometimes confusing.
		Erdrich's first five novels, beginning with the award-winning Love Medicine and concluding with Tales of Burning Love, are largely set on or near the same fictional Indian reservation in North Dakota and share many of the same characters.
	www.umsystem.edu /upress/spring1999/beidler.htm (1830 words)

	Powell's Books - The Painted Drum by Louise Erdrich (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Erdrich essays the grief that comes when the sins of parents become mortal for their children.
		Native American antiquities specialist Faye Travers, bereaved of her sister and father, ambivalently in love with a sculptor who has lost his wife and loses his daughter, stumbles onto a ceremonial drum when she handles the estate of John Jewett Tatro, whose grandfather was an agent at the Ojibwe reservation.
		Louise Erdrich is the author of eleven novels as well as volumes of poetry, children's books, and a memoir of early motherhood.
	www.powells.com /biblio?isbn=0060515104 (901 words)

	Louise Erdrich
		Four Souls (2004) is Louise Erdrich’s newest offering in the ongoing tale of Nanapush and Fleur, taking up the narrative where Tracks (1998) left off.
		Erdrich wraps things up in the end of Four Souls a little too easily for those of us who expect more from her, thus making Four Souls a disappointing book overall.
		Perhaps Erdrich’s shortcomings are that too many of the white characters are cardboard cutouts to make Fleur’s story interesting.
	www.cofc.edu /~kellyj/Graduate/Newsletter/current/BPART1bookcorner.HTM (507 words)

	'The Antelope Wife' by Louise Erdrich
		Erdrich's women are awesome in their imperiousness, starting with Blue Prairie Woman, the bereaved mother of the lost little girl.
		But while waiting to be overcome by the poisonous fumes, he sneaks to the kitchen to get whiskey, long enough to allow his daughter Deanna to creep into the back of the car, hoping to run away with her dad, and to lock himself out of the garage.
		A forward by the author states that the book was written before that unhappy event and all the rumors of Dorris' alleged sexual abuse of their children.
	www.post-gazette.com /books/reviews/19980503review28.asp (574 words)

	Erdrich, Louise -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Erdrich grew up in Wahpeton, North Dakota, where her German father and Chippewa mother taught at a Bureau of Indian Affairs boarding school.
		The Canadian librarian and author Louise Riley is best known for her children's stories of the Canadian west.
		U.S. sculptor Louise Nevelson is known for her large, monochromatic abstract sculptures and environments in wood and other materials.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9104252?tocId=9104252 (615 words)

	MPR: Louise Erdrich explores the strength of family ties in 'The Painted Drum'
		Louise Erdrich explores the strength of family ties in 'The Painted Drum'
		Erdrich, who is the author of 11 novels and numerous other works of poetry and children's books, has won acclaim for her chronicles of the Native American experience.
		Erdrich says Faye considers herself perfectly assimilated into "white culture." But when Faye hears the quiet beatings of the drum, her desire to reconnect with her own Indian heritage awakens.
	news.minnesota.publicradio.org /features/2005/09/23_cunninghamg_erdrich?rsssource=1 (318 words)

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