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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. ... 1954 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Native Americans (also Indians, Aboriginal Peoples, American Indians, First Nations, Alaskan Natives, Amerindians, or Indigenous Peoples of America) are the indigenous inhabitants of The Americas prior to the European colonization, and their modern descendants. ... For other uses of Chippewa, see Chippewa (disambiguation). ...


Her work includes Love Medicine (winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award), Tracks, The Beet Queen, The Bingo Palace, Tales of Burning Love, The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse, The Master Butcher's Singing Club, Four Souls, The Blue Jay's Dance, and The Antelope Wife (winner of the 1999 World Fantasy Award), as well as two books of poetry: Baptism of Desire and Jacklight. The word track can mean more than one thing. ... This World Fantasy Award is given to the fantasy novel or novels voted best by a panel of judges, and presented each year at the World Fantasy Convention. ...


She also co-wrote The Crown of Columbus with her late husband, Michael Dorris and is the 1987 O. Henry Award winner for her short story "Fleur" published in Esquire Magazine in August of 1986. Michael Dorris (January 30, 1945 - April 10, 1997) was a prominent Native American author who committed suicide. ... The O. Henry Awards are yearly prizes given to short stories of exceptional merit. ... This article is in need of attention. ... Esquire is a magazine for men owned by the Hearst Corporation. ...


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The SALON Interview: Louise Erdrich (1585 words)
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.
Louise Erdrich (12746 words)
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.
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