Louise Erdrich is one of the first Inidgenous authors readers become familiar with. She is best known for her _Love Medicine _series.

Her 2021 book, The Nightwatchman won the Pulitzer prize and is on my TBR list. I intend to read this book this year.

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This is a fiction book based on Erdrich's grandfather who worked as a nightwatchman and his fight against native dispossession.

On August 1, 1953, the United States Congress announced House Concurrent Resolution 108, a bill to abrogate nation-to-nation treaties, which had been made with American Indian Nations for “as long as the grass grows and the rivers flow.” The announcement called for the eventual termination of five tribes, including the Turtle Mountain Band of Chipewa.

_My grandfather Patrick Gourneau fought against termination as tribal chairman while working as a night watchman. He hardly slept. _- from the Author’s Note

I am sure to love this book because I love a blend of fact and fiction. Erdrich always has stories with an interesting cast of characters. I have loved every Erdrich book that I have read so far.

Do you like historical fiction? Let me know if you have read this one and what you thought.