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The girl who chased away sorrow : the diary of Sarah Nita, a Navajo girl / by Ann Turner.

Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel 7412
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Turner, Ann Warren, author.
Contributor:
Scholastic Inc., publisher.
Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)
Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, former owner.
Series:
Dear America
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Navajo girls--Social conditions--Juvenile fiction.
Navajo Indians--Relocation--Juvenile fiction.
Navajo Indians--History--Juvenile fiction.
Indigenous peoples--Relocation--North America--Juvenile fiction.
Indigenous peoples--North America--History--Juvenile fiction.
Indigenous peoples.
Navajo Indians.
Navajo Indians--Relocation.
North America.
Genre:
Historical fiction
Fiction
History
Juvenile works
Historical fiction.
Penn Provenance:
Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
Physical Description:
200 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
Place of Publication:
New York : Scholastic Inc., [1999]
Summary:
The diary of Sarah Nita, a thirteen-year old Navajo girl, which describes the Navajos' forced 400-mile walk from their ancestral homeland to Fort Sumner in 1864.
Local Notes:
Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2019 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
ISBN:
0590972162
9780590972161
0439555396
9780439555395
OCLC:
40150671

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