... . Their characters portray the lack of understanding present in the American society for the Native Americans and the anger prevalent amongst the culture. Both authors have awakened the literary world on the existence of a culture that had always been there for possibly thousands of years, but only through an occasional perspective from an anthropologist and or a historian. Erdrich in ... , and is a masterful storyteller. Some of her other works include That's What She Said: Contemporary poetry and Fiction by Native American Women, Jacklight (1984), The Beet Queen (1986), and The Bingo P...

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