![]() ![]() Currently, Erdrich lives in Minnesota where she continues to write and runs the Birchbark Books, an independent bookstore that seeks to create space for Native American authors. A poster called The Evolution of Man hung in my fifth grade classroom you probably have seen it. Her first novel, Love Medicine, won the National Critics’ Book Circle Award in 1984, and was based on a short story she collaborated to write with her ex-husband, Michael Dorris. FUTURE HOME OF THE LIVING GOD By Louise Erdrich 269 pp. There, she wrote many stories that took her indigenous heritage as inspiration. Erdrich wrote short stories and poetry from a young age, and in 1976 became among the first women to graduate from Dartmouth College. She and her mother’s family are members of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, a recognized tribe of which her maternal grandfather was tribal chairman. Cedar praises her adoptive parents for being great, loving, and caring. At twenty-six years of age, Cedar is pregnant and she has got no health insurance. Her biological mother comes from the Ojibwe reservation. ![]() The daughter of a Native American mother from the Ojibwe tribe and a German-American father, Louise Erdrich grew up as the oldest of seven children in Little Falls, Minnesota. Written by Elizabeth Oscar Cedar Hawk Songmaker is the adopted child of Minneapolis liberal parents, Sera and Glen Songmaker. ![]()
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