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Jerry Stemach, MS, CCC-SLP
Karen Erickson, PhD Center for Literacy and Disability StudiesUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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A Step into History
Sacagawea The Trip to the West
byAlan Venable
and Jerry Stemach
Contents
Chapter 1 How My Mother Died . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Chapter 2 Prisoner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Chapter 3 The Wives of Old Bear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Chapter 4 How My Son Was Born . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Chapter 5 Heading West . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Chapter 6 The Big Surprise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Chapter 7 Across the Rocky Mountains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Chapter 8 The Trip to the Sea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Chapter 9 The Way Back East . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Chapter 10 After the Great Adventure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
About the Author . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
About the Author . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
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Why did the Minnetarees
give me that name? Maybe
it was because I was as
thin as a bird when they
caught me. I was thin
because I was starving.
When I was 10 years
old, the Minnetaree
Indians caught
me and made me
their prisoner.
They gave me the
name Sacagawea.
Sacagawea means
“Bird Woman.”
Chapter 1: How My Mother Died 5
There were thousands
of buffalo on the plains.
We needed their meat
for food. We needed
their skins to make
teepees for houses.
We could not live
without the buffalo.
It was not safe for a Shoshoni
to go down to the plains,
but we had to do it because
there was no food for us
in the mountains.
My family was part
of the Shoshoni Indian
tribe. Our hunters and
warriors did not have
guns. But some Indian
tribes did have guns.
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We passed by my mother
lying on the ground. She
was dead. I tried to reach
her, but the warrior dragged
me away with a rope.
We could hear the war
cries of the Minnetarees.
We could hear their guns.
I tried to run, but a warrior
threw me down in the
river.
It was early in the
morning when the
Minnetaree warriors
attacked my tribe.
My mother and I were
out looking for berries
along the river.
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We passed great herds of buffalo on the plains.
The Minnetarees shot the buffalo with their guns.
They gave me buffalo meat to eat.
Chapter 2: Prisoner8
Inside the lodge, there was a room that was
big enough for many people. It was even big
enough to keep horses inside during the winter.
One day we came
to a Minnetaree
village that was
next to the wide
Missouri River.
I had never seen
houses like these
before. They were
lodges.
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The wife of the chief was good to us. She taught
us how to make round boats out of buffalo skins
so that we could cross the river.
I was sent to stay in the lodge
of the chief. There was another
Shoshoni girl staying there, too.
Her name was Otter Woman.
She could speak my language!
“We are slaves here,” she told me. “If you are careful
and do exactly as you are told, the Minnetarees will
not hurt you.”
10
Even in winter,
the Minnetarees
did not starve,
and everyone stayed
warm in the lodges.
The Minnetarees had guns
and knives and pots that
were made out of metal.
Their way of life was
very different from my
life in the Shoshoni tribe.
She taught us how to grow
corn. The women grew
so much corn that they
could trade it to other tribes
for furs and horses.
11
The Frenchman’s face was hairy like a bear!
When he spoke, he growled like a bear. We laughed
at him behind his back. We called him “Old Bear.”
When I was 13 years old, a Frenchman came
to live in the Minnetaree village. He was the
first white man that I had ever seen.
Chapter 3: The Wives of Old Bear12
One night the chief
invited Old Bear to
play a Minnetaree
game. Old Bear said,
“If I win, I want you to
give me Otter Woman
and Sacagawea.”
Old Bear learned to speak the Minnetaree
language. Old Bear would help our chief
to trade with other white men.
13
I didn’t want to marry Old Bear, but I was glad
that Otter Woman was also going to marry him.
Together we went to live in Old Bear’s lodge.
By morning,
the chief had lost
the bet, so he said
to us, “This white
man has won
you in a game.
Now you must
become his wives.”
14
“The United States
has bought some
land from France,”
said Old Bear.
“Chief Jefferson
calls this land the
Louisiana Territory.”
“They have been sent by
Chief Jefferson,” said Old Bear.
“The white man’s tribe is called
the United States.”
Two years passed.
Then, in the fall, more
than 30 white men came
up the river in big canoes.
15
“You will help the white men to trade for horses,”
said Old Bear. “The white men need Shoshoni horses
to carry their canoes over the Rocky Mountains.”
“How can white men own
the land if it belongs to
the Indians?” we asked.
“It’s simple. They have
more guns than Indians
do,” said Old Bear.
“Chief Jefferson
wants to find a
way to cross the
land to get to the
western sea,”
Old Bear went on.
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We hoped that the white
men would trade their
guns to our people for
horses. Then maybe
the Shoshonis would
not have to starve in the
mountains.
But Otter Woman
and I were happy
because we were
going back to our
people at last!
I laughed. Old Bear
must be joking. I knew
how hard it was to
cross those mountains.
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