Tracks (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Louise Erdrich
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Domestic realism
- Time of Work: 1912-1924
- Setting: a Chippewa reservation, a convent, and the town of Argus, all in North Dakota
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Parents and children, Biracial people, Midwest, 1910’s, Native Americans or American Indians, Convents or nunneries, Nuns
- Locales: Argus, ND (fictive), Chippewa Indian Reservation, North Dakota
Characters Discussed
Nanapush, one of two first-person narrators. He is an old and authoritative Chippewa speaking to his “adoptive” daughter, Lulu, as he tries to dissuade her from marrying one of the Morrisseys. Named for his tribal trickster figure, he is a survivor along with Fleur (whom he has saved) of the consumption epidemic of 1912 and a mythic figure in his own right. He claims to have guided the last buffalo hunt, seen the last bear shot, and trapped the last beaver with a pelt of more than two years’ growth.
Pauline Puyat, a young mixed-blood woman...
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