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

Name: The Lost Journals of Sacajewea: A Novel by Debra Magpie Earling- CLSC Presentation
Start: 2025-08-21T15:30:00-04:00
Location: 1 Ames Avenue, Chautauqua, NY, United States, New York 14722

Schedule

Thu, 21 Aug, 2025 at 03:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

1 Ames Avenue, Chautauqua, NY, United States, New York 14722 | Chautauqua, NY

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.

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