Indian Affairs (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Larry Woiwode
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The 1970’s
- Setting: Michigan’s Upper Peninsula
- Principal Characters: Christofer “Chris” Van Eeananam, Ellen Van Eeananam, Beauchamp Nagoosa, Gaylin Perrin, Johnny Jones, A.J. and Grandma Strohe
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: 1970’s
- Locales: Michigan
In 1969, Larry Woiwode published his first novel, What I’m Going to Do, I Think, wherein he introduced Chris and Ellen Van Eeananam. In that novel, Woiwode explored the problems of marriage and belief, as his characters strove to resolve the confusions of a disturbing present: their youth, Ellen’s pregnancy, their troubled and uncertain love. By the novel’s end, Ellen loses the child after a premature birth and Chris, rifle in hand, strides to a Michigan lakeshore to take a potshot at the fate or force that dealt out such catastrophe.
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