Script Tag: coming-of-age

Sacajawea

Sacajawea lives in the Mandan villages, away from her home with the Shoshone and alongside her pigheaded husband Charbonneau. But everything changes when the Discovery Corps arrive. Men of white skin, beards on their faces, they bring promises of the Great White Father. With winter coming, these men build a fort and break bread with… Read more »

Life Without

The two biggest life-defining moments for me happened when I was 10: My mother died of cancer, and, afterward, my Camel-smoking, Vegas-slots-playing maternal Choctaw grandmother moved in to help my dad raise me and my younger siblings into adulthood. Granny both delighted and tortured me until her death at the age of 90. I write… Read more »