kashpaw造句

• The first was June Kashpaw, who after their marriage walked into a blizzard and froze to death.
• Fleur returns to her family home on the reservation, where she meets Eli Kashpaw while hunting in the woods one day.
• Ironically, he is re-assigned by the BIA to set up the factory his father ( Nector Kashpaw ) had begun years earlier.
• Within the saga, " Tracks " is earliest chronologically, providing the back-story of several characters such as Lulu Lamartine and Marie Kashpaw who become prominent in the other novels.
• In 1979 she wrote " The World's Greatest Fisherman ", a short story about June Kashpaw, a divorced Ojibwe woman whose death by hypothermia brought her relatives home to a fictional North Dakota reservation for her funeral.
• His construction company is failing, and he has had five wives and three divorces ( his first wife was June Kashpaw, whose presence has haunted Erdrich's fiction ever since she perished in a blizzard in the first pages of Love Medicine and again in the first pages here ).
• Perhaps most important, Erdrich conveys the bonds of love and sympathy Agnes develops with the people at Little No Horse : with Nanapush, one of the tribal elders, who will become her dearest friend; with Mary Kashpaw, a huge, brooding woman, orphaned as a girl and " too well traveled a visitor in the dream world and the land of the dead " to feel at home anyplace but the grounds of the church; and with the enigmatic Fleur, who abandons her daughter to avenge herself on the man who cheated her out of her land.
• Native American government policy is a recurrent topic, especially because the Kashpaw family is ( according to Nector )  respected as the last hereditary leaders of this tribe .  As we learn from Lyman later, the Pillagers were members of the Midewiwin ( medicine men and women who were blessed by the Higher Power to help others ) :  The Pillagers had been the holdouts, the ones who wouldn t sign the treaties, the keepers of the birch bark scroll and practitioners of medicines so dark and helpful that the more devout Catholic Indians crossed their breasts when a Pillager happened to look straight at them .  Native American politics and government policy actually turn out to be the family s saving grace as the novel describes gambling :  one of history s small ironies . . . to take money from retired white people who had farmed Indian hunting grounds, worked Indian jobs, lived high while their neighbors lived low, looked down or never noticed who was starving, who was lost ( 327 ).