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Type of Document	Master's Thesis
Author	Brown, Amy Knox,
URN	etd-11022006-204716
Title	A Pinch of Dust
Degree	Master of Fine Arts
Graduate Program	Creative Writing
Advisory Committee	Advisor Name Title Wilton Barnhardt Committee Chair
Keywords	Nebraska novel Wounded Knee
Date of Defense	2006-11-06
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract ABSTRACT BROWN, AMY KNOX. A Pinch of Dust: A Novel. (Under the direction of Professor Wilton Barnhardt.) A Pinch of Dust takes place over two days during the 1973 American Indian Movement?s occupation of Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, and the novel follows a Nebraska family who becomes involved with the occupation. The story is told from the perspectives of three narrators: Corrin LeGrande, a sophomore at the University of Nebraska, whose activism and fascination with Indian issues lead her into increasingly dangerous territory; Corrin?s uncle, Jed Wood, the special assistant to Nebraska?s governor who goes to Pine Ridge in an advisory capacity and witnesses a murder the night he arrives; and Janine Wood, Jed?s wife, who remains behind in Lincoln and, while pining for a child, discovers that Jed?s deceptive past has come back to haunt her. When a misunderstanding on the reservation leads to tragedy, the family is left to seek reconciliation in the face of betrayal.
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