… for these tracks will forever show the character of your passage
1997 Convocation Speech at Dartmouth College: Louise Erdrich (Class of 1976) (Sept. 23, 1997) CONVOCATION SPEECH Ahneen, apijigo megwitch. Niminwehndam ikidooyeg noongoom onishishin geezhigud. I entered Dartmouth in 1972, a member of the first freshman class of women and in the first class of Native Americans. I had never been east of the Mississippi. I didn’t know what a bagel was. I found Brooklynese both strange and moving. I’d never met a Californian, never heard…