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Native American poet and author from Minnesota

Heid E. Erdrich (born November 26, ) is a poet, editor, and writer. Erdrich is Ojibwe enrolled at Turtle Mountain.

Early life and education

Heid Ellen Erdrich was born in Breckenridge, Minnesota, and was raised in Wahpeton, North Dakota.^[1] She comes from a family of seven siblings including sisters Louise Erdrich (well-known contemporary Native writer of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction) and Lise Erdrich (also a published writer).

Their father Ralph (German-American) and mother Rita (Turtle Mountain Ojibwe) taught at a Bureau of Indian Affairs boarding school^[2] for the Turtle Mountain Band.^[3] Their maternal grandfather, Patrick Gourneau, was the tribal chairman of the Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibwe from to and fought against Indian termination.^[4]

Erdrich graduated from Dartmouth College in with a B.A.

in Literature and Creative Writing. She earned two master's degree