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    A Study Guide for Louise Erdrich's "Indian Boarding School: The Runaways"
    A Study Guide for Louise Erdrich's "Indian Boarding School: The Runaways"
    A Study Guide for Louise Erdrich's "Indian Boarding School: The Runaways"
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    A Study Guide for Louise Erdrich's "Indian Boarding School: The Runaways"

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    A Study Guide for Louise Erdrich's "Indian Boarding School: The Runaways," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateSep 28, 2016
    ISBN9781535826044
    A Study Guide for Louise Erdrich's "Indian Boarding School: The Runaways"

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      Indian Boarding School: The Runaways

      Louise Erdrich

      1981

      Introduction

      Best known for her cycle of novels treating life in and around the Turtle Mountain Reservation of North Dakota, Louise Erdrich has also written two highly praised volumes of poetry. Her first collection, Jacklight, mostly contains poems written in 1977–1978, when she was in her early twenties. It was published in 1984—also the year her award-winning first novel, Love Medicine, was published. One of the most admired and frequently anthologized poems from Jacklight is Indian Boarding School: The Runaways.

      Erdrich is of Ojibway (or Chippewa) and German descent, and when she was growing up, her parents both taught at the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) boarding school in Wahpeton, in the southeast corner of North Dakota. Erdrich herself attended public schools and never ran away, but in Indian Boarding School, she inhabits the perspective of children making a dreamlike escape from boarding school by train, heading for home at the foot of the Turtle Mountains. They do not expect to succeed; this poem memorializes not the results of their venture but the silent resilience with which they carry on their existence under the weight of the school's attempts to assimilate them to Anglo-American culture. Indian Boarding School was originally published in Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad in the fall of 1981 and was awarded a Pushcart Prize in 1983. In addition to Jacklight, the poem can be found in Erdrich's Original Fire: Selected and New Poems (2003) and various anthologies.

      Author Biography

      Karen Louise Erdrich was born in Little Falls, Minnesota, on June 7, 1954. The town where she grew up, Wahpeton, North Dakota, is in the Red River valley, along the state's eastern border, much of which was originally part of the home territory of the Turtle Mountain Chippewa. The present-day Turtle Mountain Reservation is a small parcel of land in north-central North Dakota. Erdrich's parents both taught at the BIA boarding school in Wahpeton. Erdich's mother, Rita Joanne Erdrich, née Gourneau, was the daughter of Patrick Gourneau, the Turtle Mountain Chippewa's tribal chair, who lived on the reservation with his wife. Gourneau was a beader, powwow dancer, and fine storyteller, making a great impression on his granddaughter about the value of stories. By high school,

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