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The Hiawatha by Treuer, David is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Hiawatha about?
Recently widowed, and encouraged by government relocation schemes to move Native Americans off their reservations, Betty takes her four young children from their Ojibwe roots to make a new life in Minneapolis. As Betty struggles to keep her family and her dignity intact, her younger son Lester finds romance on the soon-to-be-demolished train, The Hiawatha, while his older brother Simon secretly protects his mother by taking a dangerous job as a construction worker, scaling the heights of the sky
Who reads The Hiawatha?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Treuer, David
- Publisher
- New York: Picador USA
- Published
- 1999
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780312203139
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction, Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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