![]() ![]() He picked up the key ring, a company flashlight, and walked the perimeter of the main floor. When he took off his padded tractor hat, a crab apple fell from the earflap. ![]() His canvas work jacket went on the chair, his lunch box on the cold windowsill. ![]() Thomas Wazhushk removed his thermos from his armpit and set it on the steel desk alongside his scuffed briefcase. Pixie, or-excuse me-Patrice, is completely fictional. Watkins, relentless pursuer of Native dispossession and the man who interrogated my grandfather. Other than Thomas, and the Turtle Mountain Jewel Bearing Plant, the only other major character who resembles anyone alive or dead, is Senator Arthur V. But all the same, I have tried to be faithful to my grandfather’s extraordinary life. He hardly slept, like my character Thomas Wazhushk. My grandfather Patrick Gourneau fought against termination as tribal chairman while working as a night watchman. Termination of all tribes, and the immediate termination of five tribes, including the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa. 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 ![]()
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