![]() ![]() This novel takes place on a fictional reservation named Little No Horse as Lipsha Morrissey leaves his home in Fargo, North Dakota to return to the reservation after many years. In the novel, Lyman plans to include these forms of gambling in his casino, "The Bingo Palace," in order to build wealth for the tribe. The act focused on three types of gaming-traditional Native games, games on electronic devices (including bingo), and card games. When reservation gaming became popular, Congress passed the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act in 1988. Butterworth signaled a rise in American Indian gaming law. As Erdrich wrote the Love Medicine series, several prominent legal cases such as Seminole Tribe v. Background Įrdrich wrote The Bingo Palace to coincide with the emergence of Indian gaming. The novel discusses themes of family and identity from an Anishinaabe perspective. He returns home to the reservation for the first time in years and finds himself in rapture of a woman named Shawnee Ray. It is the fourth novel in Erdrich's Love Medicine series, and it follows Lipsha Morrissey as he is summoned home by his grandmother Lulu Lamartine. ![]() The Bingo Palace is a novel written by Louise Erdrich published in 1994, with three chapters appearing in the Georgia Review, The New Yorker, and Granta. ![]()
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