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PBS NewsHour | New Erdrich Novel Deals With Crime and Jurisdiction | PBS

Duration: 06:42
Program: PBS NewsHour #10485
Broadcast Date: Oct. 26, 2012

Novelist Louise Erdrich examines what happens when crimes are committed on Native American reservations, a decidedly non-fictional problem, through the eyes of her fictional protagonist, a 13-year-old boy named Joe. Jeff Brown talks to Erdrich about her novel "The Round House," set on the N.D. reservation of the Ojibwe tribe.

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Post Date: October 26, 2012