Between worlds: interpreters, guides, and survivors

1. Three guides: To the Valley of Mexico : Doña Marina, "La malinche" (ca. 1500-1527)

Over the Continental Divide : Sacajawea (ca. 1790-1812 or 1884)

From the Great Basin to the halls of Congress : Sarah Winnemucca (1844-1891)

These three women

2. Three civil servants: For bishops and reigning monarch : Gaspar Antonio Chi (ca. 1532-1610)

Between prince and king : Guaman Poma de Ayala (ca. 1535?-after 1615)

From deep woods to Dartmouth : Charles Eastman (1858-1939)

These three professionals

3. Three native informants: Verses out of serfdom : Larin Paraske (ca. 1834-1904)

Images in paint, pictures in words : Doña Luz Jiménez (ca. 1895-1965)

Mushroom visions, mushroom voices : María Sabina (ca. 1900-1985)

These three wordsmiths

4. More lives, familiar stories: Africans and Dutch at the Cape of Good Hope : Eva (ca. 1642-1674)

Two survivalists : Dersu Uzala (ca. 1850-1908) and Ishi (ca. 1860-1916)

Two Australians : Chloe Grant (ca. 1903-1974) and George Watson (ca. 1899-1991)

From the Azores Islands to Pembroke College : Laurinda Andrade (1899-1980)

Rain forest woman : Dayuma (ca. 1932- )

5. What was won and what it cost

Epilogue : their children

Don Martín Cortés and Doña María Jaramillo

The hispanicization of Gaspar Antonio Chi's lineage

The inconstant Don Francisco de Ayala

Eva's namesake

Jean Baptiste Carbonneau

Charles Eastman's children

Nadeschda, Tatjana, and Vasle

Concha and her children

Catarino and Aurelio, Apolonia and Viviana

Ernie and Phyllis

Sam Padilla amd Dayuma's second family

Surrogate children.