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Searching for a Native American Identity: Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris

This program features the late Michael Dorris and Louise Erdrich, a husband-and-wife team who collaborated as writers before his untimely death. They attribute their beliefs in family, community, and place to their Native American heritage: she is half Chippewa, he is half Modoc. As Native Americans, their writing reflects the difficulties of American Indians today. In this program with Bill Moyers, Erdrich and Dorris discuss faith and the search for a Native American identity in a pluralistic society. (30 minutes)

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Item#: FMK4949
Copyright date: ©1988
VHS ISBN 978-1-4213-8794-9
DVD ISBN 978-0-7365-5768-9


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