Among the most memorialized women in American history, Sacajewea served as interpreter and guide for Lewis and Clark’s Corps of Discovery. In this visionary novel, acclaimed Indigenous author Debra Magpie Earling brings this mythologized figure vividly to life, casting unsparing light on the men who brutalized her and recentering Sacajewea as the arbiter of her own history.

Written in lyrical, dreamlike prose, The Lost Journals of Sacajewea is an astonishing work of art and a powerful tale of perseverance—the Indigenous woman’s story that hasn’t been told.

The novel’s reclamation of American mythological figure Sacajewea and its brutal representation of the destructive impact of colonization—as well as its depiction of Native communities and individuals before making first contact with white men—is singular, striking, and will appeal to a wide and curious audience.