The Night Watchman is the first novel that Erdrich has written that is set on the Turtle Mountain Reservation. [3] The novel was awarded the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction [4] and the 2025 William Dean Howells Medal.
In the Night Watchman, Louise Erdrich creates a fictional world populated with memorable characters who are forced to grapple with the worst and best impulses of human nature.
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The Night Watchman, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, is Louise Erdrich’s 17th novel. It is set in 1953 on the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa reservation in 1953 and details the fight against House Concurrent Resolution 108, a bill which sought to end tribal sovereignty.
Set against the backdrop of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa reservation in 1953, Louise Erdrich’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, “The Night Watchman,” brings to life the story of Thomas Wazhashk and his community’s struggle against the Termination Bill, formally known as House Concurrent Resolution 108.
Book review, full book summary and synopsis for The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich, a Pulitzer-prize winning novel about opposing the 1953 Indian termination bill.
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