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Book Review of The Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow: The Diary of Sarah Nita, a Navajo Girl, New Mexico, 1864 (Dear America)

The Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow: The Diary of Sarah Nita, a Navajo Girl, New Mexico, 1864 (Dear America)
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There are so many men in blue! They make loud cries, their horses stamp, and all the time the Nakai is shouting directions to us... "Make a ling, all together! You can bring your animals."
Kaibag names him Mean Mouth for his tight, skinny lips, and I pull hard on her hand, remining her that he understands out language adn that we must be careful...
Mean Mouth tells us that we are going to the Place of the Soldiers, where we will be protected for our old enimies, the Utes. The whit men will help us and feed us, for they can see that we are starving. Now is the time to stop raiding and stealing adn become the kind of pople that the Great White Fther wants us to be.
I am so confused and afraid that the words stram over me like smoke. Where wre they taking us? Will they kil lus along the way?