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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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 Shoshone. According to Gerard Baker, the Sacagawea Project Board, Calvin Grinnell, Bernard Fox, Carol Fredericks Newman, and Wanda Fox Sheppard, solid Hidatsa oral tradition confirms that she was Hidatsa all along, and the Lewis and Clark world needs to accept the truth and correct the record.

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Sacajawea

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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. White. Sacagawea was a Native American girl from the Shoshones Tribe. When she was twelve, while picking berries with other Shoshone girls she got kidnapped by 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 land well and this can only be a Native American. Charbonneau agreed to let Sacagawea be the guide of the famous expedition. She was a very skilled person who defended Louis and Clark from a dangerous animal or a Native American and this made her successful. They also had to pass through hard times, and one of those times was when a storm occurred. Clark was the first one to notice i