Monday, October 29, 2012

MEDIA - Novel, Crime and Jurisdiction on Reservations

"New Erdrich Novel Deals With Crime and Jurisdiction on North Dakota Reservation" PBS Newshour 10/26/2012

Excerpt

JEFFREY BROWN (Newshour): ..... a woman is attacked and the life of her 13-year-old son, Joe, is altered forever, along with his family. That's the dramatic outline of the new novel "The Round House" by Louise Erdrich, which has been nominated for a National Book Award.

The story is set on a Native American reservation in North Dakota, and it explores clashes of culture and law between tribal and state jurisdictions in investigating a crime.

I talked with Louise Erdrich recently and asked her first how she came to write the book.

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