The characters face the crises in their lives in ways that are easily identifiable and not uncommon to Native people

readers will learn about each tribe's history

Louise Erdrich creates a fictional world populated with memorable characters who are forced to grapple with the worst and best impulses of human nature

complicated relationships are set into motion

It is also a story of wisdom and triumph

Sanaaq: An Inuit Novel governance The characters face the crisesSanaaq is the intimate story of an Inuit family negotiating the changes brought into their community by the coming of the "qallunaat," the white people, in the mid nineteenth century. Sanaaq, a strong and outspoken young widow, and her daughter, Qumac, hunt seal, repair their kayak, and gather mussels under blue sea ice before the tide comes in. Theirs is a semi nomadic life on the edge of the ice where marriages are made and unmade, children are