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Summary: The Girl who chased away sorrow
Review: I like the story because it talks about our own people, the "NAVAJO'S". I like it also because I know more about what our people went through in the past. The story talks about helping each other to stay up with the troops that led them to Fort Sumner. What our people suffered from, and what they did to survive and what they went through to get our land back. So I encourage other to read this book and to actually know what happened to our people. What our people did to get our land back, that we are living on TODAY!
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Summary: The Girl, who chased away sorrow
Review: I really enjoyed reading this book, it was pretty interesting and kind of sad because I felt sorry for the Native Americans. I also thought that Sara Nita was a very brave young girl because she stood up for her family.
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Summary: Read it show you how to beleive in yourself!!
Review: In the beginning of the book shows the part where she is with her family when the Amercian soldiers take her family when she is with her younger sister, Kaibah, herding sheep. Shara Nita is a very good story teller and Kaibah likes to listen to her stories.When she heard someone scream she hopes it is not her mother, she tries to go to her family but her dog, Silvercoat, does not let them pass because he does not want them to get captured by the white man. When they return to their home their family is not there. They decided to go to Caynon de Chelly to find their family from their father's side of the family. Sarah Nita and Kaibah had found the caynon on their own just to be with her family again. They had found some people who were related to them and they stay with them until this evil time has pass. They were caught in the caynon walls when High Jumper had poked his head out and one of the white man had saw them. They were taken to another place where they had to eat the white mans food and they did not like it at all because it was not good for their stomaches. Some of the man and boys had run away because they didn't not like the way they were treated. When went on marching there was some old elders and pregnant woman who got shot because they could not walk any more. When they reach Fort Sumner, Sarah Nita and Kaibah were looking for their parents. They had stayed with the people they found as their relatives to get to Fort Sumner. When they found their family members, her mother was a slave for the white man, and her father was very sick. This is a very emotional and very sad book to us, Navajos. I'm am tell you this because this is a cultural thing to the Native Amercians. I am a Native Amercian and this is my history that is part of our lives and know one that is a Navajo will ever forget this time of the white man, which is also known as "The Long Walk".
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Summary: It's a great book
Review: t is a great book to all kinds of book reader, even if it was not writen by a navajo man or woman, but it was wirten by a white man. this book talk alot about navajo history, and alot about navajo familys. this is a great book to me and to my family at home, oh and to my friends at school. must of the time I read books about cars, cars that blow out nos and cars that go about 160 mhp in 9.1 sec. oh damn I'm geting off the subjact.Its a great book.
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Summary: Beeee Swazy
Review: TheGirl Who Chased Away Sarrow is a change in emotions that switches throught the story. The begining started out very slow and borning so we did not have any interest in it.So it draged until the middle. My friends say the middle was getting intesting and we read more about when sara nita,kaibah,silver coat, and their fathers side of the clan family got captured and put through the intense feeling of sarrow. I did not inpreticular like the part of the story when the white soilders mistreated the Dine.While the Dine travled many miles to reach nothing.
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Summary: The way the Natives Americans suffered!
Review: This book is about how the white people hurt the Native Americans just because they had beautiful land and that they had freedom. One day Sarah Nita and her sister were herding sheep, that's when they found out that the white people took their family to Fort Sumner. So Sarah Nita and her little sister Kaibah went to Canyon De Chelly to look for her dad's family and to hide from the Americans, who were looking for any Native Americans they could find to take them to Fort Sumner. When they were with these people who claim that they are from her dad's family. Then they were captured by the white men. So they were forced to go on the long walk to the Fort. On the way to Fort Sumner, they witness the harsh things the white people had done to their people and family. When they got to the Fort, the first thing that Sarah Nita did was to look for her mom and dad. Then the Treaty of 1868 was when the Native Americans were released from the place that they knew was no good for them. I thought that the book was interesting because my ancestors were forced to go on that walk and I would recommend this book to other Native Americans who wants to know about the Long Walk. I just hope the some people will realize what they did to are Native Americans. And Yes, we are Native Americans from the New Mexico that care about what happened in the past and that is willing to help out our People.
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Summary: The worst of the Dear Americas
Review: This book was not a very good installment ot the Dear America series. First of all, there is no way to keep track of the date. This is somehow very important to me, don't ask me why. I just like accuracy. Second, the book was so confusing, I didn't know what was going on at the end. And third, how on earth did she end up with an English name? Her sister's name is Kaibah. Where did 'Sarah' come from. All inall, if you like the Dear America series, I suggest you read either A Coal Miner's Bride or Love Thy Neighbor or especially A Line in the Sand.
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Summary: Good, But Not Dynamite
Review: This book was not entirely that good. The writer (who is Anglo)wrote this book with the historical facts all wrong. The main character Sara Nita has an English name and the Navajo's didn't get English name until they were forced to the American schools. It is good to have someone write about the Navajo's but they should get their facts correct. The Americans were too nice in this book. I am Navajo and from what my Elders tell me they were cruel to my people.
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Summary: Not terrible, but not the best dear america
Review: This book was okay, I guess. I didn't love it, however it's not horrible. Condsidering the topic had so much potential, it's a little surprising this book wasn't a little more interesting. I wouldn't recomend buying it, but it's worth checking out at the libary or somthing. If your looking for a better dear anerica book with a native american theme, I'd recomned My Heart is On the Ground. It's more emotinoal then this one (which is a little surprising condsidering it was about a forced march where loads of people died. You'd think the author would take advantage of the tearjerker potential a little more), and just generly had a better plot. Also one more thing. I thought the book would have been better if instead of haveing the main charecter tell the story to there grandaughter (or maybe just her daugheter, I'm not sure), the authour should have had the main charecter write in pitchographs (kinda like in Wettamo, which is one of the rpyal diaries. The main charecter stated that she was writing in pictures, but the actual book was in english) or she should have had her learn to write later in life (maybe from mica eyes?) and record her memiors. The gradma telling to granduaghter thing got a little confusing. All in all, this wasn't a bad book, but it wasn't that good ether.
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Summary: Very Good Diary and Compelling
Review: This story showed the truth about how American people treated Native Americans, even as recent as the late 1800s. As a fan of the Dear America Series and the Royal Diaries, I only recently read this book even though I have owned it for awhile now. Sarah Nita is an ordinary Navajo girl living with her fmaily and aunt's family. But when she and her sister are with the grazing goats, Americans come and take their family away. And so Sarah Nita and her sister set out to find relatives they have in the Canyon de Chelly. After discovering their Grandparents and cousins, it is only a short time before American men come and take Sarah Nita, her sister, and her new family away. And so begins their march in the Long Walk. Sarah Nita keeps her family, and soon many stranger Navajos', hopes up with her many entertaining stories. There are happy parts in this story such as Sarah Nita finding her family and her new love for her male cousin, but this book was tragic and sad, showing how horrible the Natives were treated, such as weak women being shot on the side of the trails and weak men being left behind. I recommend this book for people to read so that they may say the harsh and criminal punishments Native Americans went through. I don't understand how Americans could do sucha horrible thing...
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