Jan Hudson (2) (1954–1990)

Read when I was younger.Liked it well enough to re-read some times.

Also I really admired the main character and they way she managed to deal with her troubles.

Also I am realizing that many of the books I read during this period (90s) involved native americans.There certainly seems to have been a trend going on with the publishers!

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I really enjoyed this book- I don't see myself reading it again, so I'm swapping it, but still. Even though Sweetgrass talks of nothing but marriage, the story is engaging. I loved watching her life through times of plenty and the hardship of smallpox. Admittedly I paid less attention to her constant desire to marry Eagle-Sun than to all that she did day to day, which was fascinating enough for me.

I read this many years ago, and I remember liking it. Sweetgrass is a coming of age story for a young Blackfoot girl who is on the brink of womanhood. It deals with a lot of surprisingly complex issues: maturity, morality when weighed against saving lives, obedience versus disobedience to authority figures, and the like.