She can do nothing but worry and try to cheer up her parents, but it’s too late. They’ve been hearing terrible things about how the white men are in Navajo territory, burning their crops and capturing them, but nothing has happened to them so far. (90% of this blog is just me going “I don’t know.”)Īs we begin, Sarah lives with her family in their hogan in what is today Arizona-mother, father, younger sister Kaibah, and dog Silver Coat, near her aunt and uncle and cousins.
Maybe I’m just being unnecessarily picky! I don’t know. Is this better? Yes, but it certainly doesn’t read like “memory,” it reads exactly like any other DA novel, except with “stories” instead of dates. She doesn’t die!) It’s always interesting to see the different devices they come up with for books written by illiterate protagonists-I think the Royal Diaries book Weetamoo: Heart of the Pocassets uses the idea that she’s making line drawings on birch skin. Since our protagonist, Sarah Nita, isn’t/wasn’t literate, the gimmick behind this book is that it’s the transcription of her stories by her granddaughter, who was sent to a white school. Could be completely off-base! I have no idea! This one is better, but I couldn’t find a review or critique written by an actual native person, so I can’t speak to anything regarding the actual facts about the Navajo experience from their perspective. The Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow: The Diary of Sarah Nita, A Navajo Girl, New Mexico, 1864, Ann Turner, 1999.Īnn Rinaldi’s turn at this ( My Heart Is On The Ground) was absolutely dismal.
With a book that I’m not totally convinced about, but we’re coming to the end of these books (amazingly!) so I had better get this one out of the way.
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