Sacagawea biography book

Kidnapped from her Shoshone tribe when she was just eleven or twelve, Sacagawea lived with her captors for four years before being given in marriage to a French.

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Sacagawea: Westward With Lewis and Clark

April 1,

The biography Sacagawea Westward with Lewis and Clark as written by Alana J. vit. Sacagawea was a Native American girl from the Shoshones Tribe. When she was twelve, while picking berries with other Shoshone girls she got kidnapped bygd Hidatsa war party. The girls suffered especially during the winter, they got lack of food and clothes. Some people freezed to death and others caught disease. The hunters would always return without anything because it was hard to hunt during the winter. Later on, she comes through that period of marriage. A French-Canadian fur trapper named Toussaint Charbonneau bought her and a few days later he got married with Sacagawea. Louis and Clark were going to begin the “Lewis and Clark’s Expedition”, also called the “Corps of Discovery”. Their goal was to make an expedition Westward, but they needed a guide who know the nation well and this can only be a Native American. Charbonneau agreed to let Sacagawea

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Sacagawea: A Biography

Description

Sacagawea, kidnapped as an adolescent and sold as a slave to a French-Canadian fur trader, is best known for her role as interpreter and symbol of goodwill for Lewis and Clark on their journey west. Despite her pivotal role in this era of Manifest Destiny and blending cultures, much of her ensuing life story remains uncertain, thanks to a larger focus on Lewis and Clark themselves, as well as the perpetuation of legend over fact in several 20th century movies and publications. This concise and readable biography offers an objective treatment of Sacagawea&#;s childhood, her journey with Lewis and Clark, her later life, her explorer son, and the mythology surrounding her death and legacy. As the Lewis and Clark expedition is heavily represented in the U.S. history curriculum, this much-needed volume fills a gap on the reference shelves and supplements American history and Native American studies curricula. Lively narrative chapters are supplemented

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Book Review — Our Story of Eagle Woman, Sacagawea: They Got It Wrong

Over several decades, when I have encountered my friend Gerard Baker of the Mandan-Hidatsa, he has invariably said, “You know Sacagawea was Hidatsa.” The Hidatsa (Lewis and Clark’s Minnetarees) believe that Sacagawea was always Hidatsa, that she had an important relationship with the Shoshone, but that she was not genetically Shoshone. The Hidatsa believe that Lewis and Clark “got it wrong.” Now they have published a book to make their case, Our Story of Eagle Woman: Sacagawea: They Got it Wrong.

This is a very difficult book to review for several reasons. First, its argument, its insistence, contradicts everything we thought we knew about Sacagawea. We thought Sacagawea was born Shoshone, captured by the Hidatsa, acculturated into the Hidatsa world, given a Hidatsa name (Bird Woman), and that Lewis and Clark took her with them in April to help secure horses from her natal people, the Shoshon