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    Woman Walking Ahead: In Search of Catherine Weldon and Sitting Bull
    Woman Walking Ahead: In Search of Catherine Weldon and Sitting Bull
    Woman Walking Ahead: In Search of Catherine Weldon and Sitting Bull
    Audiobook15 hours

    Woman Walking Ahead: In Search of Catherine Weldon and Sitting Bull

    Written by Eileen Pollack

    Narrated by Emily Beresford

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    This book restores a little-known advocate of Indian rights to her place in history. In June 1889, a widowed Brooklyn artist named Catherine Weldon traveled to the Standing Rock Reservation in Dakota Territory to help Sitting Bull hold onto land that the government was trying to wrest from his people. Her efforts were counterproductive; she was ordered to leave the reservation, and the Standing Rock Sioux were bullied into signing away their land. But she returned with her teenage son, settling at Sitting Bull's camp on the Grand River. In recognition of her unusual qualities, Sitting Bull's people called her Toka heya mani win, Woman Walking Ahead.

    Predictably, the press vilified Weldon, calling her "Sitting Bull's white squaw" and accusing her of inciting Sitting Bull to join the Ghost Dance religion then sweeping the West. In fact, Weldon opposed the movement, arguing that the army would use the Ghost dance as an excuse to jail or kill Sitting Bull. Unfortunately, she was right.

    Up to now, history has distorted and largely overlooked Weldon's story. In retracing Weldon's steps, Eileen Pollack recovers her life and compares her world to our own.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateFeb 7, 2017
    ISBN9781515985624
    Woman Walking Ahead: In Search of Catherine Weldon and Sitting Bull
    Author

    Eileen Pollack

    Eileen Pollack grew up in Liberty, New York. She has received fellowships from the Michener Foundation and the MacDowell Colony, and her stories have appeared in Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, the Literary Review, the AGNI Review, Playgirl, and the New Generation. She lives in Belmont, Massachusetts, and teaches at Tufts University. She won the Pushcart Prize for her story “Past, Future, Elsewhere.”

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      An imaginative biography -- as much a journal or memoir of discovery as exposition and description of Catherine Weldon's life. I loved the story, and the creative techniques used to fill in gaps in the factual record, but it felt padded and repetitive at times.