| Edition |
Unabridged. |
| Description |
1 audio media player (approximately 13 hr., 30 min.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in. |
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digital non-volatile flash memory rda |
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audio file ACELP rda |
| Note |
Title from container. |
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"HD." |
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"Light." |
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"Harper Audio." |
| Performer |
Read by the author. |
| Note |
Previously released by HarperCollins Publishers, ℗2020. |
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Release date supplied by publisher. |
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Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player. |
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One set of earphones and one AAA battery required for listening. |
| Summary |
"Thomas Wazhashk is the night watchman at the jewel-bearing plant, the first factory located near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a Chippewa council member who is trying to understand the consequences of a new "emancipation" bill on its way to the floor of the United States Congress. It is 1953 and he and the other council members know the bill isn't about freedom: Congress is fed up with Indians. The bill is a "termination" that threatens the rights of Native Americans to their land and their very identity. How can the government abandon treaties made in good faith with Native Americans "for as long as the grasses shall grow, and the rivers run"? Since graduating from high school, Pixie Paranteau has insisted that everyone call her Patrice. She makes jewel bearings at the plant, a job that pays barely enough to support her mother and younger brother. Patrice's alcoholic father returns home sporadically to terrorize his wife and children, and to bully Patrice for money. But Patrice needs every penny to follow her beloved older sister, Vera, who moved to the big city of Minneapolis. Vera may have disappeared; she hasn't been in touch in months and is rumored to have had a baby. Determined to find Vera and her child, Patrice makes a fateful trip to Minnesota that introduces her to unexpected forms of exploitation and violence and endangers her life. Thomas and Patrice live in a reservation community. We also come to know young Chippewa boxer Wood Mountain and his mother, Juggie Blue, and Patrice's best friend, Valentine, as well as Hay Stack Barnes, the white high school math teacher and boxing coach who is hopelessly in love with Patrice."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Subject |
Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Fiction.
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| Subject |
Indians of North America -- Government relations -- Fiction.
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Indians of North America -- Fiction.
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| Local Subject |
Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Government relations -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Historical fiction.
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Audiobooks.
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| Added Author |
Harper Audio (Firm)
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HarperCollins (Firm)
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Playaway Digital Audio.
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Findaway World, LLC.
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| ISBN |
9781094290003 |
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1094290009 |
| Music No. |
40237 Findaway World |
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