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Essay on What Lulu has inherited from Her Mother's Experiences?
In “Tracks” written by Louise Erdrich, we can easily say that Lulu has inherited Native American identity from her mother’s experiences, the connection of an individual with the history of his or her tribe. In the novel, the trickster or patriarch Nanapush narrates to young Lulu the story of the tribe's struggles to survive in an attempt to give her back the identity she has lost while away at a government boarding school. More than just speaking the personal history of Lulu's mother Fleur, Nanapush and Pauline tell stories about the connections of family, clan, and tribe
Lulu has further inherited to define herself historically as a product of tribal traditions and pressures from the white community........