Frank Baum saying genocide was the only real solution in dealing with native Americans). It is a thinly veiled indictment against manifest destiny and a lament on the wrongs perpetrated by European settlers on the natives (Erdrich goes so far as to even include quotes by Wizard of Oz author L. Metaphors are everywhere, sometimes prominent and striking, other times hidden and buried. LaRose is a novel comprised of many themes. Although the mothers of each family are half-sisters, because of this borderline that runs between them their children go to different schools and they live very different lives, until a great tragedy forces them together and makes them share a child. There are the Irons-a native family who live within the reservation and practice traditional ways-and the Ravichs-a family of European descent-who live just outside the reservation. Source: LaRose is the story of two neighboring families who live on either side of the Ojibwe Indian reservation border in North Dakota.
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