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Category: Louise Erdrich

My grandfather was a persuasive man who made friends with people at every level of influence. In order to fight against our tribe’s termination, he went to newspapers and politicians and urged them to advocate for our tribe in Washington. He also supported his family through the Depression as a truck farmer.

Friends, Depression, Man

My mother is Turtle Mountain Chippewa, and she lived on her home reservation. My father taught there. He had just been discharged from the Air Force. He went to school on the GI Bill and got his teaching credentials. He is adventurous – he worked his way through Alaska at age seventeen and paid for his living expenses by winning at the poker table.

Home, Father, Mother

I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on.

Word, Talking, Well

Here I am where I ought to be.

It was enough just to sit there without words.

I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise grew discouraged and traveled on.

I was in love with the whole world and all that lived in its rainy arms.

She gave her husband such a night of sexual pleasure that his eyes followed her constantly after that, narrow and hot. He grew molten when she passed near other men, and at night they made their own shaking tent. They got teased too much and moved farther off, into the brush, into the nesting ground of shy and holy loons. There, no one could hear them. In solitude they made love until they became gaunt and hungry, pale windigos with aching eyes, tongues of flame.

hunger, jealousy, love, lovers, sex

For it was through books that she felt her life to be unjudged Look at all of the great mix-ups, messes, confinement, and double-dealings in Shakespeare, she thought.Identities disguised continually, in a combative dance of illusion and discovery.

books, discovery-of-oneself, identity, illusion, judgement

Of course, English is a very powerful language, a colonizer’s language and a gift to a writer. English has destroyed and sucked up the languages of other cultures – its cruelty is its vitality.

english, language

If, as I suspect, my body survives by uttering itself over and over again, then I have some questions. If [I] am one word, so are my daughters, so are all of us in strings and loops. Each life is one short word slowly uttered.

language, story

Old love, middle love, the kind of love that knows itself and knows that nothing lasts, is a desperate shared wildness.

experience, love