Bookshelf Treasures: Lost Journals of Sacajewea

Our next read for Bookshelf Treasures is:

The Lost Journals of Sacajewea: A Novel by Debra Magpie Earling

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.

Class Begins: Tuesday, January 21st

Time:  6:00PM - 7:30PM (Mountain Time)

Facilitated by: Jeanne Gallick and Kaye Chatterton, Director of the CAW Wisdom Institute

Capacity: 12

We’ll be exploring a new book each month, with each session dedicated to a different title.  We’re currently compiling the reading list, so stay tuned for exciting selections to come! A calendar for the selected books to be read in January and February 2025 will be coming soon  

Email us with suggestions.  croneawakeningwisdom.@gmail.com

Recommend purchase of used books from Ebay.com/ or your public library.