Tracks (Magill’s Literary Annual 1989)
At a glance:
- Author: Louise Erdrich
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1912-1924
- Setting: North Dakota
- Principal Characters: Nanapush, Pauline Puyat, Margaret Kashpaw, Fleur Pillager, Eli Kashpaw, Lulu Nanapush
- 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
This novel is the third in a projected four-novel cycle by the author. Erdrich's two earlier works, Love Medicine (1984) and The Beet Queen (1986), share a North Dakota setting and certain characters with Tracks, but this third novel takes place earlier than the two previous books. Tracks seeks to examine the struggle of Native Americans during the first two decades of the twentieth century. It is an era marked by natural obstacles, including plague and famine, and by encroaching “progress,” the white man's euphemism for a dwindling Indian share of land...
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