Dec 23, 2009

Salem on History | Louise Erdrich

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Series: Dictionary of World Biography: Twentieth Century
Categories: Women’s Issues, Literature, Publishing
Subcategories: Authors, Writers, Novelists, Short Story Writers, Poetry, Poets, Native Americans, American Indians
Curriculum: American History 1951-present, Women’s History, American Indian History

Article abstract: A poet and novelist of Chippewa and German descent, Erdrich has become one of the most important authors writing Native American fiction in the late twentieth century.

Early Life

Louise Erdrich was born in Little Falls, Minnesota, across the Red River from Wahpeton, North Dakota, the small town that later served as a model for Erdrich’s fictional town of Argus. Her father, Ralph Erdrich, was a German immigrant; her mother, Rita Journeau Erdrich, was a three-quarters Chippewa. Both her parents were employed by the Wahpeton Bureau of...

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Salem on History | Louise Erdrich

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Early Life

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