"Stone Heart" is a gripping retelling of the story of American legend Sacajawea, the young Shoshoni woman who traveled with Lewis and Clark on their expedition to the West. Presented in Sacajawea's own voice juxtaposed with excerpts from Lewis and Clark's diaries, it is a work of moving and illuminating fiction cast from a famed piece of history that has long been masked by myth.

Lewis and Clark recorded the external journey, its physical challenges and wonders. Diane Glancy's Sacajawea experiences...

In this innovative novel, a librarian of Cherokee ancestry rekindles and reinvents her Native identity by discovering the rhythm and spark of traditionally told stories in the most unusual places in the modern world. Ada Ronner, a librarian at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, hears books speak and senses their restless flow as they circulate. The same relentless energy and liberation of the story is also felt by Ada as she roller-skates at the Dust Bowl, a local skating rink,...

The 900-mile march of Indians deported from their homes to resettlement territory in Oklahoma in 1838. It is told from many view points, including a woman who develops a relationship with a white soldier. Of the 13,000 marchers, a quarter died. A first novel by a writer of Cherokee and European ancestry.