The much-mythologized Indigenous woman takes control of her own narrative in this "formally inventive, historically eye-opening novel" (The New York Times).
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...

Uses previously unknown information about Sacagawea's later years to separate fact from myth about the courageous Indian woman who accompanied the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

"A woman's help. Lewis and Clark explored the American West more than two centuries ago, but they didn't do it alone. Many indigenous peoples helped the two white military captains, and their crew of fifty men, survive. One such woman, Sacagawea, has become legendary. Because she spoke two languages the Shoshone teenage mother, adopted in the the Hidatsa tribe, joined the expedition as an interpreter. Joined by fact, Sacagawea, Lewis, and Clark traveled...