From the River’s Edge (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Elizabeth Cook-Lynn
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Plot: Historical realism
- Time of Work: The late 1960’s
- Setting: Missouri River country near Pierre, South Dakota
- Principal Characters: John Tatekeya, Aurelia, Rose Tatekeya, Harvey Big Pipe, Jason Big Pipe, Walter Cunningham, Joseph Nelson III
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: 1960’s, Cattle, Prejudices or antipathies, Midwest, Trials, Native Americans or American Indians, Mysteries, Theft
- Locales: Crow Creek Indian Reservation, SD, South Dakota
The Novel
With the Missouri River as a background presence, its dammed-up waters forcing change upon Native American inhabitants of the South Dakota grasslands who have lived there for generations, From the River’s Edge juxtaposes modern progress with the Native American struggle to retain a separate culture and identity in a world of white rules and white justice.
This fictional story, related by an unseen third-person narrator, is divided into three parts. Each corresponds, in turn, to the trial, summation, and verdict of the legal proceeding to establish the...
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