From Booklist
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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Review
"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