| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 34.3

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| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 34.3 | The History Cooperative

*Woman Walking Ahead: In Search of Catherine Weldon and Sitting Bull*. By Eileen Pollack. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2002. 360 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.)
Immortalized by Nobel laureate Derek Walcott in his epic poem, Omeros (New York, 1990), Swiss-born Catherine Weldon, represented the "entire Euro-American fascination with Native American history, myth, and art" (p. 317). Perceiving "the Indians' lives as beautiful and ... repulsed by the prospect of seeing that beauty ruined," she offered "to live among the Indians, eat the rations they ate, [and] teach them to cook and sew" (p. 208).	1
In her fifties and a widow, Weldon, a member of the National Indian Defense Association, journeyed west in the summer of 1889 to assist Sitting Bull and his tribe in confronting governmental pressure to sell more land. The Hunkpapa leader "welcomed her offer to act as his lobbyist, translator and advisor" (p. 4). She also provided him with maps and fair land prices, sold her silverware and jewelry to feed his family, and painted four portraits—one of which hung in the smaller of his two cabins.	. . .

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