Dismantling the Boundary between History and Fiction in Louise Erdrich’s Tracks

Abstract

Louise Erdrich’s Tracks examines the struggle of the Chippewa, the native people of North Dakota in the United States during the troublesome era of early 1900s. This era was marked with natural calamities like plague and famine, and still more by the encroachment of Chippewa home forest by the white, thus challenging the existence of their unique culture and tradition. The history of the people during this most wearisome era is mingled with fiction, as history itself becomes like fiction in their struggle for livelihood.