The Night Watchman Presentation Featuring Author Louise Erdrich
In partnership, the Fargo, Moorhead and West Fargo public libraries, Concordia College’s Carl B. Ylvisaker Library, Minnesota State University Moorhead’s Livingston Lord Library, North Dakota State University Libraries, Moorhead Area Public Schools Indian Education, the Indigenous Association, and the Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County have selected Louise Erdrich’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Night Watchman as the 2022 One Book, One Community selection.
As part of the lineup of events for the One Book, One Community reading project, join us for an author visit and presentation by Louise Erdrich (Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians). Set near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota in the 1950s, The Night Watchman includes universal themes of community, family, love and freedom. The novel is based on Erdrich’s grandfather, Patrick Gourneau, who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington, D.C. It tells the little-known story of the U.S. government’s efforts in the 1950s to “emancipate” the Turtle Mountain band and other tribes and end federal recognition of these tribes in order to force them off their ancestral land. Check out the book at the Livingston Lord Library and listen to the audiobook via OverDrive and the Libby app
All are welcome to attend this free presentation in-person or virtually. MSUM Students – this is a Pathway event!
This event will be held at The Centrum on the campus of Concordia College at 7 p.m. Admission is free; pre-signed books will be available for purchase from Zandbroz Variety. Parking on the Concordia Campus is free, with the following lots being in the closest proximity to The Centrum: KC, KA and TL. Please visit 1book1community.org for more information about the reading project and related events happening around the F-M community.