![]() ![]() She took with her their nine-year-old daughter and her lover’s newborn child. Bernard does, so he tells them by recounting the drum’s story.īernard’s grandfather, Old Shaawano, made the drum after his wife, Anaquot, left him for her lover, a Pillager named Simon Jack. He knows they are related to the Ojibwe Pillager clan and thinks, “Those two don’t know who they are, what it means that they are Pillagers” (107). In a home near Hoopdance, North Dakota, Bernard Shaawano meets Faye and Elsie, who have returned the drum to the reservation. With Elsie’s help, Faye schemes to deliver the drum to its rightful owners in North Dakota. ![]() Faye, who considers herself unsentimental and rational, is shocked to perceive the drum sounding of its own accord and, then, to find herself stealing the artifact from the estate. Although Faye’s maternal grandmother was born on an Ojibwe reservation in North Dakota, neither Faye nor Elsie display any affinity, cultural or otherwise, for their heritage. Elsie and Faye own an estate appraisal business, and while cataloging the contents of a house where an American Indian agent once lived, Faye finds an Ojibwe painted drum. ![]()
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