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Elsie's business
Author OL6766266A
Elsie Roberts has been dead a year when the narrator arrives in the town where she was bludgeoned to death in January 1969. The daughter of a black father and a Native American mother, Elsie moved there after being attacked by white teenagers near the Standing Rock Reservation. The narrator searches for the truth about Elsie, a story an old Native "grandfather" tells him has been "polished ... with lies, half truths, and omissions."
Subjects
Dakota IndiansIndian reservationsIndian womenRape victimsFictionIndians of north america, fictionFiction, generalStanding Rock Indian Reservation (N.D. and S.D.)