Lipsha's Road to Recovery in Love Medicine and Bingo Palace

Abstract

Erdrich’s works present native people’s loss and struggle in confronting the intersection of white culture and native culture. The paper aims to explore native people’s identity search and finds that Lipsha achieves his success with the help of his connection to his family and his native culture. His success implies the author's suggestions on self-positioning and mental health for the native people under the mixed culture. Through the creation of this image, the author also provides strategies for the revival of native culture. In the process of contact with mainstream culture, all aspects of Indian life are influenced by cultural hybridity. In this mixed background, the boundary between the mainstream and the edge has been crossed, and natives cannot rely on simple confrontation or blind obedience to achieve development. Blindness will only lead to loss, while simple confrontation will not bring about revival and prosperity. Only by conforming to the tide of cultural integration, preserving, and inheriting the native cultural characteristics, and being good at absorbing the positive elements conducive to the development of their own culture from other cultures can natives find their own position in multiculturalism and make their own beautiful voices.