![]() ![]() ![]() Erdrich is a prolific writer and is considered an important voice in Native American literature. She married Michael Dorris, an anthropologist and her former teacher at Dartmouth, in 1981, and the couple went on to have three biological children and adopt three more. In 1979, Erdrich earned a Master of Arts in Writing from Johns Hopkins University. Erdrich enrolled at Dartmouth College in 1972-the very first year women were admitted to the school-and graduated in 1976 with a degree in English. Both of Erdrich’s parents taught at a North Dakota boarding school ran by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and Erdrich’s grandfather, Patrick Gourneau, was the chairman of their tribe, much like Nector Kashpaw is in Love Medicine. ![]() Louise Erdrich, an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, was born the first of seven children to Ralph Erdrich and Rita Gourneau, a half-Ojibwe, half-French Chippewa woman. ![]()
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