Cavalry soldier Scranton Roy sets the stage for generations of family patterns when he abandons his post during a raid on a peaceful Ojibwa village to chase after a dog carrying a baby strapped to its back, and settles down with the child in frontier Minnesota.
year: 1998, 1999
call number/section: 1000
subjects: native americans, ojibwa, fiction, north america, domestic fiction, family, minnesota, indians of north america, ojibwa indians, minneapolis (minn.), fiction
Editions
Erdrich, Louise
HarperFlamingo (1998)
Cavalry soldier Scranton Roy sets the stage for generations of family patterns when he abandons his post during a raid on a peaceful Ojibwa village to chase after a dog carrying a baby strapped to its back, and settles down with the child in frontier Minnesota.
Schools: 1
Erdrich, Louise
HarperPerennial (1999)
A novel of connections in which history, lust, contemporary urban Native American life, hand-me-down names, and legends, as well as sacred myth, combine.
Schools: 0