Jan 3, 2010

Fleur | Topics for Further Study

Research Native American history in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. What did Native American communities go through in the adjustment to reservation life? How did U.S. government policy towards Native Americans change, and what were the effects of these policies? How did the experience of Chippewa tribes in North Dakota fare in comparison to other tribes across the country?

Fleur and Pauline appear in a variety of Erdrich’s works, as do their relatives and descendents. Assign a group of classmates to each read a novel from Erdrich’s saga that begins with...