
Perma Red
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On the reservation, summer is ending, and Louise White Elk is determined to forge her own path. Raised by her Grandmother Magpie after her mother's death, Louise and her sister have grown up into the harsh social and physical landscape of western Montana, where Native people endure boarding schools and life far from home.
As she approaches adulthood, Louise hopes to create an independent life for herself and an improved future for her family-but three persistent men have other plans. Since childhood, Louise has been pursued by Baptiste Yellow Knife, feared not only for his rough-and-tumble ways but also for the preternatural gifts of his bloodline. Baptiste's rival is his cousin, Charlie Kicking Woman: a man caught between worlds, torn between his duty as a tribal officer and his fascination with Louise. And then there is Harvey Stoner. The white real estate mogul can offer Louise her wildest dreams of freedom, but at what cost? As tensions mount, Louise finds herself trying to outrun the bitter clutches of winter and the will of powerful men, facing choices that will alter her life-and end another's-forever.
"Beautiful... This novel will stand proudly among its peers in Native American literature and should have strong appeal to fans of Louise Erdrich." - Library Journal
"You will be mesmerized." -NPR
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Debra Magpie Earling is the author of Perma Red and The Lost Journals of Sacajewea. An earlier version of the latter, written in verse, was produced as an artist book during the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark expedition. She has received both a National Endowment for the Arts grant and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She retired from the University of Montana where she was named professor emeritus in 2021. She is Bitterroot Salish.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Flathead Indian Reservation
- Louise and Yellow Knife: The Old Marriage
- Charlie Kicking Woman: The Bite
- Jules Bart and Louise: The Cowboy
- Charlie Kicking Woman: The Hard Truths
- Louise: Years of Summer
- Louise: The Falling Place
- Officer Kicking Woman: Here
- Louise: At Long Last Home
- Louise: The Burning Fields
- Charlie Kicking Woman: After the Fire
- Baptiste and Louise: The Power of Marriage
- Louise: Roads
- Charlie Kicking Woman: Powwow
- Louise: Blind Spot
- Charlie Kicking Woman: Chasing the Dream
- Louise: Heading Home
- Charlie Kicking Woman: The Still River Place
- Louise: The Long Length of Day
- Charlie Kicking Woman: Duties
- Louise: Dead Sight
- Charlie Kicking Woman: Reservation Death
- Louise: The Long Hunger
- Charlie Kicking Woman: Trouble
- Louise: Old Ghosts
- Charlie Kicking Woman: Seeing
- Louise: Going Home
- Charlie Kicking Woman: Bad Roads Milepost Marker 104
- Baptiste Yellow Knife: Gifts
- Louise Yellow Knife: Returning
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
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