- Paperback: 225 pages
- Publisher: Bison Books (Aug 1 1999)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 080327324X
- ISBN-13: 978-0803273245
- Product Dimensions: 2.3 x 1.5 x 0.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 318 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,615,013 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This collaboration between a Shoshone teacher and a white anthropologist presents the classic tensions inherent in European and Native American views of culture. And Horne's story materializes as one of a lifetime spent educating--not acculturating--young Native Americans. A descendent of Sacajawea, who accompanied the Lewis and Clark expedition from Missouri to the Pacific coast, Horne spent her formative years in boarding schools operated by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The schools were designed to convert Indians to white American culture. But Horne notes that the very act of bringing together so many tribes ended in strengthening their sense of commonality and creating a pan-Indian identity that foreshadowed the Native American movement. In this fascinating life story, Horne sees Sacajawea as a personal metaphor, by which she makes sense of her own life as a Native American in a nation that reveres the written word over oral tradition. That reverence highlights a dispute as to how long Sacajawea lived. Horne recalls stories told of Sacajawea's living to old age versus the official recorded version that has her dying as a young woman. Vanessa Bush
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"This collaboration between a Shoshone teacher and a white anthropologist presents the classic tensions inherent in European and Native American views of culture. And Horne's story materializes as one of a lifetime spent educating -- not acculturating -- young Native Americans. . . . In this fascinating life story, Horne sees Sacajawea as a personal metaphor, by which she makes sense of her own life as a Native American in a nation that reveres the written word over oral tradition". -- Booklist
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A great book about a great women.,
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This review is from: Essie's Story: The Life and Legacy of a Shoshone Teacher (Paperback)
A life history of the great-great granddaughter of Sacajewea who was Indian boarding school teacher. The stories were great and left me with the notion of how could this women accomplish so much in one lifetime. A must read.
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This review is from: Essie's Story: The Life and Legacy of a Shoshone Teacher (Paperback)
Essie's Story is an excellent source of history and information on the women of the Mountain West, of whom Esther Burnett Horne shines brilliantly.
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A great book about a great women.,
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This review is from: Essie's Story: The Life and Legacy of a Shoshone Teacher (Paperback)
A life history of the great-great granddaughter of Sacajewea who was Indian boarding school teacher. The stories were great and left me with the notion of how could this women accomplish so much in one lifetime. A must read.
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