21. Louise Erdrich Bibliography Bibliography of poetry, novels and other works, compiled by Modern American Poetry. http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/erdrich/bib.htm

Louise Erdrich Bibliography Poetry Jacklight. New York, Holt, 1984. Baptism of Desire. New York, HarperCollins, 1989. Novels Love Medicine. New York, Holt, 1984; London, Deutsch, 1985; expanded edition, Holt, 1993. The Beet Queen. New York, Holt, 1986; London, Hamish Hamilton, 1987. Tracks. New York, Holt, and London, Hamish Hamilton, 1988. The Crown of Columbus, with Michael Dorris. New York and London, HarperCollins, 1991. Short Stories The Bingo Palace. London, Flamingo, and New York, HarperCollins, 1994. Tales of Burning Love. New York, HarperCollins, 1996. Return to Louise Erdrich

22. About Louise Erdrich About louise erdrich. louise erdrich. SeeJan George, Interview with louise erdrich, North Dakota Quarterly 53 (1985) 240246. http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/erdrich/about.htm

About Louise Erdrich Louise Erdrich T he earth was full of life and there were dandelions growing out the window, thick as thieves, already seeded, fat as big yellow plungers. She let my hand go. I got up. "I'll go out and dig a few dandelions," I told her. Outside, the sun was hot and heavy as a hand on my back. I felt it flow down my arms, out my fingers, arrowing through the ends of the fork into the earth. With every root I prized up there was a return, as if I was kin to its secret lesson. The touch got stronger as I worked through the grassy afternoon. Uncurling from me like a seed out of the blackness where I was lost, the touch spread. The spiked leaves full of bitter mother's milk. A buried root. A nuisance people dig up and throw in the sun to wither. A globe of frail seeds that’s indestructible. From Love Medicine Brigham Narins Erdrich's interest in writing can be traced to her childhood and her heritage. She told Writer's Digest contributor Michael Schumacher, "People in [Native American] families make everything into a story . . . People just sit and the stories start coming, one after another. I suppose that when you grow up constantly hearing the stories rise, break, and fall, it gets into you somehow." Erdrich once told Contemporary Authors of the way in which her parents encouraged her writing: "My father used to give me a nickel for story I wrote, and my mother wove strips of construction paper together and stapled them into book covers. So at an early age I felt myself to be a published author earning substantial royalties."

23. Louise Erdrich (Chippewa) (b. 1954) Classroom syllabus for discussion of author and works. http://college.hmco.com/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/erdrich.html

Louise Erdrich (Chippewa) (b. 1954) Contributing Editor: Andrew O. Wiget Classroom Issues and Strategies One problem in teaching Love Medicine is the intensity of religious experience, which many students in today's secular society may have difficulty relating to. Another is the surrealistic imagery that Marie Lazarre uses in describing her relationship with Sister Leopolda. And yet a third is understanding the historical and cultural context of reservation life at this period of time in the 1930s. In terms of the historical and cultural context, I would point out to students that Indian reservations in the 1930s were notorious for their poverty, their high mortality rate, their chronic unemployment, and the destruction of the fabric of Native American social and cultural forms. One of the principal policies of the United States government was to transform Native Americans into carbon copies of Anglo-Americans, and one of the principal ways that they hoped to accomplish this, ever since the Grant administration in the 1870s, was through religion. During the 1870s, the Native American communities were allocated among the various major Christian sects, and missionary activity was understood to be an agent of social and cultural transformation. The objective was to get rid of the Indian while saving the man. Culture was imagined as a number of practices and behaviors and customs, whichif they could be changedwould eliminate all the historic obstacles to the Indians' participation in Anglo-American culture. Of course, if they were eliminated, so would the Indian nest be eliminated. Religion then is hardly a simple spiritual force, but an agent of the interests of the Euro-American majority. Such an understanding, I think, should help students appreciate the intensity with which Marie and Sister Leopolda enter their confrontation.

24. Review Louise Erdrich's New Novel Is A Master Work Review of The Master Butcher's Singing Club, published Feb. 3, 2003 in the Minneapolis StarTribune. http://www.startribune.com/stories/385/3610082.html

25. Louise Erdrich - Voices From The Gaps louise erdrich b. 1954. Love Medicine. louise erdrich Photo credits. Click to go to Biography Criticism Selected Bibliography Related Links. http://voices.cla.umn.edu/newsite/authors/ERDRICHlouise.htm

PROJECT WRITERS CLASSROOM SUBMIT RESOUND OPPORTUNITIES ... by significant dates LOUISE ERDRICH b. 1954 The earth was full of life and there were dandelions growing out the window, thick as thieves, already seeded, fat as big yellow plungers. She let my hand go. I got up. "I'll go out and dig a few dandelions," I told her. Outside, the sun was hot and heavy as a hand on my back. I felt it flow down my arms, out my fingers, arrowing through the ends of the fork into the earth. With every root I prized up there was a return, as if I was kin to its secret lesson. The touch got stronger as I worked through the grassy afternoon. Uncurling from me like a seed out of the blackness where I was lost, the touch spread. The spiked leaves full of bitter mother's milk. A buried root. A nuisance people dig up and throw in the sun to wither. A globe of frail seeds that's indestructible. Love Medicine Louise Erdrich Photo credits Click to go to: Biography - Criticism Selected Bibliography Related Links BIOGRAPHY - CRITICISM In a 1985 interview with Laura Coltelli, Karen Louise Erdrich was asked if she considered herself to be a poet or a storyteller. 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. The daughter of French Ojibwe mother and German American father, Louise Erdrich is a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa. Erdrich's large extended family lived nearby, affecting her writing life from an early age.

26. A Reader's Guide To The Novels Of Louise Erdrich Book review of A Reader's Guide to the Novels of louise erdrich http://www.system.missouri.edu/upress/spring1999/beidler.htm

A Reader's Guide to the Novels of Louise Erdrich Peter G. Beidler and Gay Barton 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. Bringing together for the first time information from all six of Erdrich's novels, A Reader's Guide to the Novels of Louise Erdrich pilots readers through the maze of her interlocking worlds. 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. The Antelope Wife, her sixth novel, has a different setting but features an equally complex cast of characters. In their guide, Beidler and Barton trace these interconnections between individuals and families, as well as the multiple overlapping stories within and among the novels. Divided into two main sections

27. Louise Erdrich - HarperCollins louise erdrich p louise erdrich is the author of ten novels as well as volumes of poetry, children s books, and a memoir of early motherhood. louise erdrich. http://www.harpercollins.com/catalog/author_xml.asp?authorid=2905

28. Kidsreads.com - Louise Erdrich THE BIRCHBARK HOUSE. louise erdrich. BIO louise erdrich is one of the most gifted, prolific, and challenging of contemporary Native American novelists. http://www.kidsreads.com/authors/au-erdrich-louise.asp

Louise Erdrich Books by Louise Erdrich THE BIRCHBARK HOUSE Louise Erdrich BIO Louise Erdrich is one of the most gifted, prolific, and challenging of contemporary Native American novelists. Born in 1954 in Little Falls, Minnesota, she grew up mostly in Wahpeton, North Dakota, where her parents taught at Bureau of Indian Affairs schools. Her fiction reflects aspects of her mixed heritage: German through her father, and French and Ojibwa through her mother. She worked at various jobs, such as hoeing sugar beets, farm work, waitressing, short order cooking, lifeguarding, and construction work, before becoming a writer. She attended the Johns Hopkins creative writing program and received fellowships at the McDowell Colony and the Yaddo Colony. After she was named writer-in-residence at Dartmouth, she married professor Michael Dorris and raised several children, some of them adopted. She and Michael became a picture-book husband-and-wife writing team, though they wrote only one truly collaborative novel, THE CROWN OF COLUMBUS (1991). THE ANTELOPE WIFE was published in 1998, not long after her separation from Michael and his subsequent suicide. Some reviewers believed they saw in THE ANTELOPE WIFE the anguish Erdrich must have felt as her marriage crumbled, but she has stated that she is unconscious of having mirrored any real-life events.

29. Erdrich, Louise Love Medicine Literature Annotations. erdrich, louise Love Medicine. Genre, Novel (367 pp.). http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webdescrips/erdrich153-de

About the Database Editorial Board Annotators What's New ... MedHum Home 53rd Edition-April 2004 Art Annotations Artists Meet the Artist Viewing Room ... Art in Literature Literature Annotations Authors Meet the Author Listening Room ... Reading Room Performing Arts Film/Video Annotations Screening Room Theater Editors' Choices Choices Editor's Biosketch Indexes Book Order Form Search Options Word/Phrase (All) Word/Phrase (Lit) Keyword Annotator ... Special Author Asterisks indicate multimedia Comments/Inquiries Literature Annotations Erdrich, Louise Love Medicine Genre Novel (367 pp.) Keywords Acculturation Aging Alcoholism Children ... Women's Health Summary The author tells the story of two Native-American (Chippewa) families whose lives interweave through several generations during the years 1934-1984. The primary setting is a reservation in North Dakota. The main characters, Marie and Nector Kashpaw and Lulu Lamartine, are colorful, sympathetic people caught in a love triangle that endures for most of their adult lives. "Love medicine" represents an attempt by a Kashpaw grandson to assure once and for all that his aging grandfather will love and be true to his wife and cease "hankering after the Lamartine." The plan ends in disaster when corners are cut and the authentic old Indian customs for preparing the "love medicine" are circumvented. There is a strong sense of the blending of culturesreligion, medicine, commerce, education all take on the distinctive qualities of an evolving mixed culture. Displacement and disenfranchisement are a fact of life, taken almost for granted, with humor, but not without a response. "They gave you worthless land to start with and then they chopped it out from under your feet. They took your kids away and stuffed the English language in their mouth . . . They sold you booze for furs and then told you not to drink. It was time, high past time, the Indians smartened up and started using the only leverage they had-federal law." (p. 326) So begins an initiative to establish a gambling casino; "gambling fit into the old traditions . . . . "

30. Women's History Month - Louise Erdrich Comprehensive biography and bibliography. http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/whm/bio/erdrich_l.htm

31. Erdrich, Louise Comments/Inquiries ©New York University 19932004. erdrich, louise. On-Line Author Site. Sex, Female. National Origin, United States of America. http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webauthors/erdrich166-au-

About the Database Editorial Board Annotators What's New ... MedHum Home 53rd Edition-April 2004 Art Annotations Artists Meet the Artist Viewing Room ... Art in Literature Literature Annotations Authors Meet the Author Listening Room ... Reading Room Performing Arts Film/Video Annotations Screening Room Theater Editors' Choices Choices Editor's Biosketch Indexes Book Order Form Search Options Word/Phrase (All) Word/Phrase (Lit) Keyword Annotator ... Special Author Asterisks indicate multimedia Comments/Inquiries Erdrich, Louise On-Line Author Site Sex Female National Origin United States of America Ethnic Origin part Native-American Era Late 20th Century Born Awards National Book Critics Circle Award Annotated Works Love Medicine Tracks

32. Style: "Where The Maps Stopped": The Aesthetics Of Borders In Louise Erdrich's L Article about the author, with discussion of border issues. http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m2342/1_33/58055909/p1/article.jhtml

@import url(/css/us/style.css); @import url(/css/us/searchResult1.css); @import url(/css/us/articles.css); Advanced Search Home Help IN all publications this publication Automotive Business Computing Entertainment Health News Reference Sports YOU ARE HERE Articles Style Spring, 1999 Content provided in partnership with Print friendly Tell a friend Find subscription deals "Where the Maps Stopped": The Aesthetics of Borders in Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine and Tracks Style Spring, 1999 by Rita Ferrari The language of margins and borders marks a position of paradox: both inside and outside. - Linda Hutcheon (Poetics 66) In her novels Love Medicine and Tracks, Louise Erdrich engages the paradox of employing and glorifying the oral tradition and its culturally cohesive function by inscribing this tradition.(1) The text that simultaneously asserts and denies the presence of voice makes explicit the paradoxical presence and absence that is the condition of all language, of all texts as they compose words to call forth a world. In Erdrich's work this paradox plays itself out in representing a people, and their culture, who have been unrepresented or represented in manipulative ways in the service of a dominant group's ideology. Her work thus questions the politics of representation. In Border Theory, David E. Johnson and Scott Michaelsen complicate the premises of border studies that began with a focus on the U.S.-Mexico border, but has expanded to include "Latin American, Caribbean, and internal U.S. borders [. . .].the U.S.-Canadian border, U.S. sectionalism, and American immigrants' diasporic experience" while employing "anthropological, sociological, feminist, Marxist, European postmodernist and poststructuralist, postcolonial, ethnohistorical, and race/ethnicity theory" (2). Johnson and Michaelsen write that their volume "jeopardizes not just the border, whether of political-geographic or metaphoric realities, but the limits of any attempt to theorize the border" (29). In discussing the border between Anglo and Amerindian cultures, they suggest thinking

33. Biography Of Louise Erdrich - Bookbrowse.com A biography of louise erdrich, plus a substantial book excerpt and multiple book reviews from one or more recent books, at BookBrowse.com. BookBrowse.com, http://www.bookbrowse.com/index.cfm?page=author&authorID=613

34. Louise Erdrich Biography louise erdrich Biography The eldest of seven children, louise erdrich was born in Little Falls, Minnesota on July 6, 1954. She grew http://www.unl.edu/plains/events/resource/erdrichbio.html

Return to: Educational Resource Center for Great Plains Studies Link to: Works Critical Bibliography Louise Erdrich Biography The eldest of seven children, Louise Erdrich was born in Little Falls, Minnesota on July 6, 1954. She grew up in Wahpeton, North Dakota where her parents taught at the Bureau of Indian Affairs school. At an early age Erdrich was encouraged by her parents to write stories. Her father paid her a nickel a story and her mother made covers for her first books. In high school, Erdrich continued her writing by keeping a journal. In 1972, Erdrich was among the first women admitted to Dartmouth College. She majored in English and creative writing, and took courses in the Native American Studies program headed by her future husband, Michael Dorris. She graduated in 1976. In 1979, Erdrich earned her Master of Arts degree in writing from John Hopkins University. For her thesis Erdrich wrote poetry that would later be published in the collection Jacklight . She also began writing her novel Tracks . After John Hopkins, Erdrich worked at

35. Louise Erdrich Bibliography Critical Annotated Bibliography about louise erdrich s Work Books Beidler, Peter G., and Barton, Gary. A Reader s Guide to the Novels of louise erdrich. http://www.unl.edu/plains/events/resource/erdrichbiblio.html

Return to: Educational Resource Center for Great Plains Studies Link to: Biography Works Critical Annotated Bibliography about Louise Erdrich's Work Books Beidler, Peter G., and Barton, Gary. A Reader's Guide to the Novels of Louise Erdrich . Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1999. The authors' purpose in this book "is to offer a guide to Louise Erdrich's world, bringing information from all six novels together in one place." The six novels are Love Medicine The Beet Queen Tracks The Bingo Palace Tales of Burning Love (1996), and The Antelope Wife Bruchac, Joseph, ed. "Whatever is Really Yours." In Survival this Way: Interviews with American Indian Poets . Sun Tracks: An American Indian Literary Series 15. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1987, pp. 75-86. In this brief interview Erdrich describes different aspects of her poetry and fiction, and the way in which the people in her life and her heritage influence her poetry. She also articulates her feelings towards being on Indian land. Bruchac also includes Erdrich's poem, "Indian Boarding School: The Runaways." Chavkin, Allan, and Nancy Feyl Chavkin, eds.

36. What About The Sweetheart? The Different Shape Of Anishinabe Two Sisters Stories Critical essay discussing the author's use of Anishinabe storytelling. http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m2278/2_24/59211509/print.jhtml

37. Alibris: Louise Erdrich Used, new outof-print books by author louise erdrich. view cover, Jacklight more books like this by erdrich, louise louise erdrich s first book of poetry. http://www.alibris.com/search/books/author/Erdrich, Louise

You'll find it at Alibris: Over 40 million used, new and hard-to-find books! CART ACCOUNT WISHLIST HELP ... SEARCH search in Books Music: All CD Vinyl Movies: All DVD VHS by title / ISBN by author / artist by subject / genre my email address unsubscribe here your shopping cart order status wish list ... help browse BOOKS Browse for author " Louise Erdrich " matched 39 titles. Sometimes it pays off to expand your search to view all available copies of books matching your search terms. Page of 2 sort results by Top Selling Title Author Used Price New Price Master Butchers Singing Club more books like this by Erdrich, Louise What happens when a trained killer discovers that his true vocation is love? Having survived the killing fields of World War I, Fidelis Waldvogel returns home to his quiet German village and marries the pregnant widow of his best friend who was killed in action. With a suitcase full of sausages and a master butcher's precious set of knives, Fidelis... buy used: from buy new: from The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse more books like this by Erdrich, Louise

38. Alibris: Louise Erdrich Used, new outof-print books by author louise erdrich. view cover, Jacklight more books like this by erdrich, louise louise erdrich s first book of poetry. http://www.alibris.com/search/books/author/louise erdrich

You'll find it at Alibris: Over 40 million used, new and hard-to-find books! CART ACCOUNT WISHLIST HELP ... SEARCH search in Books Music: All CD Vinyl Movies: All DVD VHS by title / ISBN by author / artist by subject / genre my email address unsubscribe here your shopping cart order status wish list ... help browse BOOKS Browse for author " louise erdrich " matched 39 titles. Sometimes it pays off to expand your search to view all available copies of books matching your search terms. Page of 2 sort results by Top Selling Title Author Used Price New Price Master Butchers Singing Club more books like this by Erdrich, Louise What happens when a trained killer discovers that his true vocation is love? Having survived the killing fields of World War I, Fidelis Waldvogel returns home to his quiet German village and marries the pregnant widow of his best friend who was killed in action. With a suitcase full of sausages and a master butcher's precious set of knives, Fidelis... buy used: from buy new: from The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse more books like this by Erdrich, Louise

39. The Christian Science Monitor | Csmonitor.com Article and book review in the Christian Science Monitor. http://csmweb2.emcweb.com/durable/2001/04/12/p18s1.htm

WORLD USA COMMENTARY LEARNING ... Text Edition Search: Archive Packages Collections of articles on specific topics. Most-viewed stories: (for 05/26/04) US unready for the next - likely - act of terror Why are they smiling? Making them talk: the moral debate Bush's bid to shape the Iraq story ... The South emerges as jobs haven FEATURES, BOOKS from the April 12, 2001 edition Editor's note The Christian Science Monitor archive includes stories dating back to 1980. Some early articles lack sufficient formatting, and will appear as one long column without paragraph breaks. We apologize for the aesthetics and hope that the information will still be of value to you. Louise Erdrich finds more miracles Ron Charles - Any summary of Louise Erdrich's new novel risks crimping its striking variety and imaginative power. "The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse" is one of those wonderful books that's as memorable for its parts as it is for its whole. (Excerpts have already appeared in The New Yorker.) The story returns to the Ojibwe natives of North Dakota depicted in her earlier novels, including "Love Medicine," for which she won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1983. Although fans will recognize characters from those books, this novel approaches the community from a distance, in the voice of an unusual stranger. Agnes DeWitt, of rural Wisconsin, would have spent her quiet life teaching in the convent were it not for her love of Chopin. So passionate is her playing that the other nuns wake in a troubling sweat. When the Mother Superior removes the piano stool, Agnes plays on her knees. Asked to stop, she takes off her habit and wanders back into the world.

40. Native American Authors - Teacher Resources Back to Top. louise erdrich. From Voices from the Gaps. Native American Authors louise erdrich, Biography; Bibliography; links; from Internet Public Library. http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/natauth.htm

Native American Authors - Teacher Resources Welcome to the Internet School Library Media Center Native American Author Page. You'll find biography, bibliography, lesson plans, online etexts and critical reviews of selected authors whose works are taught in the public schools or at the university level. Literature includes both adult and juvenile. For general information, see Native Americans - Internet Resources The ISLMC is a preview site for librarians, teachers, students and parents. You can search this site, use an index or sitemap . Check your local public or school library to obtain titles. You'll find a good selection for purchase at nativeauthors.com . Page revised 1/22/00. General Sites Bibliography Unit/Lesson Plans Paula Gunn Allen ... Ray Young Bear General Sites Using Literature by American Indians and Alaska Natives in Secondary Schools. ERIC Digest ERIC document ED348201 Erasing Native American Stereotypes Criteria for evaluation of materials; from Smithsonian Institution, Anthropology Outreach Office Selective Bibliography and Guide for "I"Is Not for Indian : The Portrayal of Native Americans in Books for Young People From nativeculture.com; Discusses selection of materials

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