The Spirit Woman

I enjoyed this book. It is a book about violence towards women - domestic violence. It is a book about wanting to believe, refusing to accept the facts (even when they're staring you in the face) whether it's for the love of a man or a love for history. Also, it's about the need to belong somewhere,......more

Father John's time on the reservation draws to a close as the provincial orders him to complete his doctorate back East so he can teach.The new priest arrives on a motorcycle and shows interest in Arapaho oral stories. Vicky is back with her abusive former spouse, but she's already beginning to see......more

I've read all the Wind River series up to now, and chose this one to review because of the issue of abused women. Coel's handling of this sensitive issue is accurate and should touch many who have not understood how abuse affects women. That she uses her talents as a historian to tell the story of S......more

In this novel, Sacajawea is said to have lived a long life. She is buried on the Wind River reservation where Fr. John O'Malley pastors his flock for the Catholic Arapaho people. A rumor has circulated in the area for years that Sacajawea told her life story to a an Indian Agent's wife in the 1880s.......more

Interesting entry in Margaret Coel's Wind River Series combining the questions into the history of Sacajawea & the underlying social & cultural issue of spousal abuse...2 historians, decades apart, disappear on the reservation while researching Sacajawea & Father John O'Malley & Arapahoe Lawyer Vick......more