I Will Not Weep

Author Janet Sabina Says Of Her Fictional Navajo Characters: When The U.S.Army Forces Hundreds Of Native American Navajo Families From Their Homes To An Internment Camp In What Is Now New Mexico In 1864 I Want Readers To See The Confusion The Blood The Despair.. When My Young Protagonist Is Unable To Protect His Mother And Newborn Brother As He Promised His Father He Would I Want Readers To Fight Tears As He Promises Himself I Will Not Weep. When He Lies Beside A Meager Fire Suffering From Small Pox And Wondering What Death Is Like I Want Readers To Wonder Too. . I Want Them To Feel The Humiliation Of A Young Girl Who Has Been Sold As A Slave When Her Owner Rips A Dress From Her Body. When She Escapes With A Young Man Of Her People And Builds A Marriage Ceremony With What She Remembers From Home I Want Readers To Celebrate With Her.