The Night Watchman Free Audiobook Download by Louise Erdrich

The Night Watchman is a fictional novel about a group of young Native American boys. It is told from the perspective of these boys. Some are good and some are bad, yet all have one thing in common: they want to be accepted by their families and seen as a man.

The Night Watchman is a novel about a series of murders that happen in the remote town of Poesis, North Dakota. The town's only physician, Anton "Bud" Wold, is called away from his family to help with the investigation. He befriends two local boys who are working on their final project for English class. The story surrounds them and exposes the corruption in rural America by focusing on poverty and race relations.

The Night Watchman is a story of two world that collide, one is the Lakota World and the other is our modern world. The narrator of the story, Joe King Bearheart tells the story of his ancestors who come from unknown lands to seek food which they find in abundance but quickly realize that there are many new threats for them to face. Joe tells this story in first person with many biblical metaphors intertwined throughout.

The Night Watchman is a book that takes place in the fictional town of "Indian Falls" and follows the fictitious people who live there. The most significant character is, by far, Joe King. He is born without his biological father in "a Sioux reservation near Pine Ridge" on August 28, 1903. From an early age, he was raised by his Mexican grandfather who taught him everything from how to pick berries to how to hunt deer. He constantly struggles with racism while trying to maintain his identity as a Native American man.

The Night Watchman is a novel that takes place during the Dakota War of 1862, when the US government attempted to forcibly remove white settlers from the Dakotas. The book follows Dakota warrior Ptea Tȟatȟáŋka Kȟota, or 'Pretty Walker,' who has just lost his wife and son to the ongoing war. Pretty must decide whether he will return home with his army and fight for the Dakota people or remain in exile, growing old and feeble on behalf of another cause.