Between worlds : [electronic resource] interpreters, guides, and survivors / Frances Karttunen.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-343) and index.

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.