Why read The Lost Journals of Sacajewea?

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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…

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1 author picked The Lost Journals of Sacajewea as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Leslie Budewitz

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Earling's choice to explore language as she wrote about a young woman -- a girl, really -- best known as an interpreter was brilliant. It takes some effort to get into the rhythm of the language and follow the story -- not a strictly linear narrative -- but the payoff is a deeper understanding and compassion for a woman kidnapped by an enemy tribe, sold into marriage, and conscripted into a long and difficult journey. Earling's Lewis & Clark are not the brave men of myth and written American history. Yet the real story is Sacajawea, and her deep spiritual…

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