The Snake Game is a deeply disturbing, deeply moving novel, it's characters drawn with an exacting eye and placed in a perfectly rendered world- both physical and emotional. It is a striking powerful novelistic debut.
The time is our own- the 1950's to the 1980's. The place is a vast, remote tract of dense pine forest and deep lakes along the Minnesota/Canada border- Big Pines, sacred Ojibway and Chippewa ground arrogated by the white government. Here, what was once the sanctuary of the Indians "old life" is now a graveyard, the only monument to it, a white-owned sportsmen's lodge where the indians' inherited knowledge of the land and waters make them valuable guides. Follows the lifes of three generations of Ojibway and Chippewa.
The time is our own- the 1950's to the 1980's. The place is a vast, remote tract of dense pine forest and deep lakes along the Minnesota/Canada border- Big Pines, sacred Ojibway and Chippewa ground arrogated by the white government. Here, what was once the sanctuary of the Indians "old life" is now a graveyard, the only monument to it, a white-owned sportsmen's lodge where the indians' inherited knowledge of the land and waters make them valuable guides. Follows the lifes of three generations of Ojibway and Chippewa.
