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Part I, pages 1 - 51

• NOTE: Citations in this Lesson Plan refer to the following version of the book: Erdrich, Louise. Future Home of the Living God. HarperCollins Publishers, 2017. First edition (hardcover).

• Future Home of the Living God is a dystopian thriller novel by Louise Erdrich set in an unnamed year wherein pregnancy and childbearing have become issues of state security.

• Cedar Hawk Songmaker is the first-person narrator and protagonist of the novel.

• Cedar introduces herself in Part I as she sets out toward the Ojibwe Indian reservation from her home in the suburbs of Minneapolis.

• Cedar is 26 years old, unmarried, and pregnant. She is going to the Ojibwe reservation to meet her birth mother and hopefully learn about her culture and history of genetics.

• Cedar was adopted at birth by liberal, wealthy, vegan white parents, Glen and Sera Songmaker.

• Cedar’s Native American ancestry was embraced by the...

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