Love Med

Love and Loss in Love Medicine

The sad narrative of life on an Indian Reservation is one that cannot be told within the scope of a single generation. Instead, it must relayed across multiple interconnected generations persisting within a beleaguered collective culture. In many ways, this is the only way to gain a nuanced understanding of the way tribal life now persists, splintered by the invasion of the European lifestyle but echoed in the inextricably linked families that still remain. This tribal orientation, if not today the protective and familial force that it was before the arrival of the Europeans, gives America's Native Americans a shared feeing of cultural otherness. This is the premise that underscores the groundbreaking 1984 text by Louise Erdich and which is even further affirmed by the 1993 Extended Edition of Love Medicine considered here. The Erdich text is perhaps most important for providing...
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