5/26/2023 0 Comments The Beet Queen by Louise Erdrich![]() With her admission to Dartmouth College in 1972, her talent began to mature. She was encouraged by her parents from an early age to write and was nurtured on stories. ![]() Through her matrilineal line, she is an enrolled member in the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, and her grandfather, Patrick Gourneau, was tribal chairman in the 1950s. The daughter of a German father and a Métis (French and Cree or Northern Ojibwe) mother, Erdrich grew up in the small town of Wapheton, North Dakota, where her parents worked at the Indian School, an off-reservation boarding school. ![]() Her stories have frequently appeared in the New Yorker, and her work is routinely anthologized in a wide variety of textbooks. 1954) is a popular, award-winning American Indian writer of, by 2012, twelve novels, a short story collection, six children’s books, three books of poetry, two nonfiction works, and scores of essays. ![]()
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