![]() ![]() And why I had to write it then was, it just took over. It wasn't why I wrote the book, but maybe it was why my grandfather's letters were so powerfully resonant for me, because I'd been thinking about this for years and years. On a 2018 decision to deny land ownership to the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe ![]() They had done everything possible to fit in to American society and culture. There was despair among people who were terminated. The tribes ended up with, again, you know, through the generations, a smaller and smaller land base, and now finally it was loss of identity. Of those first five, what happened was complete devastation and loss. On the effect of tribal termination in 1953Īs it shook out, the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa was the one tribe to resist early and early on. So instead of putting that money into infrastructure on reservations, the government decided to move people off that valuable property. And relocation was designed to remove native people from the reservations by giving them incentives to move to the city. And she follows her sister because her sister has become part of this other program that it hinged into termination. ![]() She's the kind of woman who did things perfectly when enraged. ![]() Books 'Round House' Is One Of Erdrich's Best ![]()
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