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One of my favorite female novel characters is Sacajawea and particularly the one from the historical fiction book by Diane Glancy called Stone Heart. Glancy is part Native-American and part German, but she’s also a Christian and that’s what makes it the right mix for this creative nonfiction book. Glancy happened to be giving a lecture at the library one day and so I stopped in to listen - being as I’ve read most of her books.
Diane shared about her research on reading the journals of Lewis and Clark and how she pulled from her Native American background to come up with a diary of Sacajawea and for the book Pushing the Bear (which was too painful for me to read). What hooked me into Stone Heart was the back and forth of the writings of the two male intellectuals with the female spiritual-heart. It really captures the multiple perspectives. Sacajawea would write what a landmark was originally called and it actually was descriptive of the land. Then Lewis and Clark would re-name it some random name from their mother country.
When I read books I really like to identify with the characters. In fact, ever since I’ve been able to hear God, I have been led to identify with various characters in the Bible. So, the first time I read Stone Heart I was riding on a bus - back and forth - to work. In my imagination I was in the canoe with Lewis and Clark when the bus crashed into a truck. It actually just bumped into it, but still, we had to get off and transfer to another bus. And so I stepped out of the canoe with the rest of the Corps Discovery crew as I searched the surroundings for roots and berries to eat… But seriously, the motion on the bus felt like I was gliding on the waters. It really got me in the mode.
Then of course, I had to buy myself a Sacajawea skirt. It is just a jean skirt with some fringes on the bottom that actually looks more like the Laplander’s (Saami’s) outfits. The Saamis are the reindeer herders or indiginous people of Northern Scandinavia. A young Saami girl told the gospel to a Swedish evangelist who shared the gospel to Finland. This is one historical fiction novel I feel like I want research and write about in a style like Diane Glancy wrote her novel.
One of the most fascinating aspects of the American exploration story is that Lewis and Clark picked Sacajawea (and her abusive French-Canadian husband) to go with them because she was pregnant and that would be a sign to the Native Americans (enemy or friendly tribes) to believe the crew was peaceable. She gave birth to a boy named John Baptiste which I consider to be a prophetic sign of the birth of a Christian nation and I don’t mean just a white Christian nation
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