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Also called Sacajawea : Chief Woman's stolen identity / Thomas H. Johnson ; with Helen S. Johnson.
Author
Johnson, Thomas Hoevet, 1943-
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Long Grove, IL : Waveland Press, Inc., [2008]
©2008
Description
x, 124 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
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Available Online
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Mendel Music Library - Stacks
F592.7.S123 J64 2008
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Subject(s)
Shoshoni women
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Biography
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Indigenous peoples of North America
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Biography
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Mistaken identity
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Oral tradition
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United States
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Eastern Shoshone Tribe of the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming
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Lemhi Indian Reservation (Idaho)
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Sacagawea
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Indigenous Studies
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Author
Johnson, Helen S.
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Library of Congress genre(s)
Biographies
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Summary note
"Anthropologist Tom Johnson, a long-time fieldworker among the Eastern Shoshone Indians, unfolds a captivating story of mistaken identity, manipulated facts, and disputed legend involving Sacajawea, the young Shoshone who accompanied the Lewis and Clark expedition. For over a hundred years, many have believed Sacajawea rejoined her people at Wind River where she died and was buried in 1884. Conclusive evidence surfaced in the 1950s that the woman in that grave was not Sacajawea. Through his careful unraveling of Shoshone oral tradition, bolstered by the discovery of a key historical document, Johnson strips away decades of cover-up to reveal the Wind River Sacajawea's true identity without discrediting Shoshone history and values. The reader is invited onto a contemporary reservation to share in conversations with Native people who have a stake in both perpetuating and disputing the legend of Sacajawea. Also Called Sacajawea touches upon a universal ethnohistorical theme: the elevation of oral tradition to honor the beliefs about ancestors. It also illuminates how the dominant culture imposes its values and attitudes on Native people."--Jacket.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. 109-113).
Contents
Here lies Sacajawea
Mistaken identity
How one family became another
Reservation and town
The search for proof you can see and touch
Radio waves over the grave
A big mouth and a pink Chevrolet
The clue in the Sun Dance
Paraivo, Chief Woman
Graven in stone
Honoring Sacajawea?
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Chief Woman's stolen identity
ISBN
9781577665342
1577665341
LCCN
2008295393
OCLC
166389881
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