Book Review

Title : Sacajawea

Author : Joseph Bruchac

Publisher : Scholastic

Place and Date of Publication: New York, 2000

Number of Pages : 194

Where I found the Book : Christian Heritage School Library

~Story Review~

It is about about a women's journey and her adventures, which is also told by the perspective of Sacajawea herself and a man named William Clark. This story is about a young Native American girl ,from the tribe of the Shoshone, named Sacajawea, who is taken captive from her village by white traders with her friend named Otter Woman. They then are both given to a woman in another village and are put to work in her fields. But one day the meet a man named Toussaint Charbonneau. Who won her and Otter Woman from their Minetaree captor. Charbonneau married the young Sacajawea, and they had a son. Soon after, Charbonneau was hired by Lewis and Clark to accompany their expedition along the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean, and Charbonneau was invited to bring his family along with him. Which is great news for Sacajawea, who dreams to be reunited with her Shoshone family once again. Sacajawea is very helpful because of her skills in language, her ability to find food and serve as a great interpreter. The title is called Sacajawea because she plays a very important role in this story. The theme of this book is travel, because the whole book was about travel. This book was meant to be around the early 1800s. The main characters in this book are Sacajawea, Charbonneau, Captain Lewis, and William Clark.

~Christian Perspective~

This story was not written in a Christian perspective. This book does mention praying though. It doesn't really mention anything religious in this book besides Sacajawea and the other Native people and their spirituality. Sacajawea does tell lots of stories of respecting the earth and all the creatures and people in it. As a Christian I thought it was good because most of the Native people had respect for others and most of the traders treated them well. Their beliefs and Chritianity are very different in many ways but they do have some similarities. Some of them are to treat other people well and to respect nature that the Creator (God) has made for them. I wouldn't judge her and her friends because they aren't Christian but they do seem like good people. But most of the time the characters delt with conflict in a Godly way.

~My Thoughts~

At first I got a little confused when I first read the book but after when I started to read it more I began to understand how it was written. Then in the beginning chapters I didn't like the book, but the more I read, the more I became interesting and started to like it. I would recommend this book to people who like history and stories of Native people and traders. This book gives you an idea of how it was to travel in those days in foreign land and meet new people and also how trading went. I'd give this book about a 8 out of 10. I liked this book because it was very interesting.

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