The Lost Journals of Sacajewea

Title: The Lost Journals of Sacajewea
Author: Debra Magpie Earling
Fiction: 1694213
ISBN: 9781639550746
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: 2024
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Section: Fiction | Indigenous | General (see also Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island or Nat
Condition Note: New from the publisher
Publisher Description: Winner of the American Book Award
Winner of the Montana Book Award
Winner of the PNBA Book Award"In my seventh winter, when my head only reached my Appe's rib, a White Man came into camp. Bare trees scratched sky. Cold was endless. He moved through trees like strikes of sunlight. My Bia said he came with bad intentions, like a Water Baby's cry."Among the most memorialized women in American history, Sacajewea served as interpreter and guide for Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery. In this visionary novel, acclaimed Indigenous author Debra Magpie Earling brings this mythologized figure vividly to life, casting unsparing light on the men who brutalized her and recentering Sacajewea as the arbiter of her own history.Here, the young Sacajewea is bright and bold, growing strong from the hard work of "learning all ways to survive." When her village is raided, Sacajewea is kidnapped and then gambled away to Charbonneau, a French Canadian trapper. Heavy with grief, she learns how to survive at the edge of a strange new world. When Lewis and Clark's expedition party arrives, Sacajewea knows she must cross a vast and brutal terrain with her newborn son, the white man who owns her, and a company of men who wish to conquer and commodify the world she loves.Written in lyrical, dreamlike prose, The Lost Journals of Sacajewea is an astonishing work of art and a powerful tale of perseverance--the Indigenous woman's story that hasn't been told.