The antelope wife
Subtitle: a novel
By: Louise Erdrich.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: HarperFlamingo
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
Subjects: Ojibwa Indians -- Fiction; Indians of North America -- Fiction; Minneapolis (Minn.) -- Fiction
Description: The Antelope Wife is a novel of connections in which history, lust, contemporary urban Native American life, hand-me-down names, and legends, as well as sacred myth, combine. Set in Minneapolis, originally an important trading center and hunting ground, still a magnet for many native people from nearby reservations, the story goes back in time.

The novel begins with a soldier, who deserts the cavalry during a cruel raid on an Ojibwa village to chase a dog bearing on its back a baby on a cradle board strung with breathtaking blue beads. Generations later, a fast-talking trader kidnaps a silent and graceful woman from a powwow. In a haunting re-creation of a native tale, the woman is part antelope. Hunter and hunted change identities. The Antelope Wife changes people. Nothing is ever the same again for friends and family.