Hello, I am looking for someone to write an article on Tracks by Louise Erdrich. It needs to be at least 1250 words. Misshepeshu, the underwater manito, “influences the abundance and availability f land and sea animals” which greatly affect the food supply (Vecsey 74). This match manito is credited with most malicious acts happening in or around the water. According to Christopher Vecsey, an Ojibwa religion scholar, “It could cause rapids and stormy waters. it often sank canoes and drowned Indians” (74). But it is also known to “shelter and feed those who fell through the ice” (Vecsey 74). The very dialectical nature f Misshepeshu is something in which Nanapush and the other tribesmen firmly believed. For example, when Fleur returns to the lake from Argus, the town experiences a period f good fishing and no lost boats. They attribute this to Fleur’s ability “to keep the lake thing controlled” (Erdrich 35). Because the manito f the lake is appeased, people are hesitant to question the relationship that Fleur has with the monsters in fear f enraging him.

Both narratives open with the introduction f Fleur Pillage, the heroine f the novel. Immediately, the reader notices a distinct difference in the two narrators’ descriptions f Fleur’s arrival to the tribe. The tribe elder Nanapush, also the opening narrator, is the first to find Fleur Pillager after an attack on her family.