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Little is known about Sacajewea’s actual life.
What’s been pieced together from the journals of Lewis and Clark and other records often glorifies or dilutes the tragedies she and other Indigenous peoples endured as a result of colonial exploration.
Missoula-based author Debra Magpie Earling’s new book, The Lost Journals of Sacajewea, tells Sacajewea’s story from a first-person perspective that challenges many things previously thought to be fact.
“She has many different kinds of interpretations [of her], and there’s oral histories about her life from different tribes, including my own,”
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