Julie Buffalohead

I did not like this book for two reasons. First, I did not like the flow of the text. The writing in this book is often choppy and simple. Many sentences lack descriptive words and depth. For example, “A few days later they came to a beautiful river. The grateful captain named it after Sacagawea.” This sentence, in particular, could have described the beauty of the river. Instead, it is choppy and boring.
Another reason I did not like this book was because of questionable underlying sexism. This dislike is not necessarily the author’s point of view, but however, the historic time period’s point of view. This, unfortunately, crept its way into the text too much for my pleasure. To be a good biography, one must be historically correct, but to add passages such as “Cameahwait was moved, too. But the council had to continue. Though tears kept flooding back, Sacagawea kept her duty until the council ended.” This passage, to me, seems to say the it is fine for women to be overcome with emotion, but not men. The main idea of this book is that anyone can become an important part of history as long as they are willing to take risks.… (meer)