Shadows of Responsibility: The Night Watchman

This month, one of the books (yes, there's another) we'll gather around is Louise Erdrich’s The Night Watchman, a novel that illuminates not only the story of one man’s determination but also the larger truth of what happens when a nation seeks to erase entire peoples under the guise of “policy.”

Based on the life of Erdrich’s grandfather, the book transports us into the world of 1950s Turtle Mountain, where Indigenous families confront the federal government’s relentless push for “termination”—a policy designed to strip Native nations of their sovereignty, dissolve tribal lands, and sever cultural lifelines. In prose both tender and unflinching, Erdrich shows us what it means to resist dispossession, and how survival often demands both political battle and personal sacrifice.

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