The Lost Journals of Sacajewea

The Lost Journals of SacajeweaFrom the award winning author of Perma Red comes a devastatingly beautiful novel that challenges prevailing historical narratives of Sacajewea. "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,

in the words of the Dakota people who lived it

including activism and tribal enrollment

And there young Darrel learns to be fiercely proud of his heritage and to listen to the birds that will guide him throughout his life

Contributors include Louise Erdrich

a precision

which informed white definitions of tribes in the nineteenth century

as a cook and seamstress

is cursed by the sin of her great-grandfather

the Point of Rocks

military and Native American archives

Through the stories we tell

Alternating between these two records