Who Was Sacagawea?

Remembering that we know very little about the real Sacajawea except for what is recorded in Lewis & Clark journals (available from Dover), this book does a creditable job of reconstructing her role in the L&C trek to the Pacific Coast. The journals uniformly praise her value to the expedition (especially in comparison to her French-trapper husband), and these episodes are extracted and brought to life. I have a slight 'yes but' to the incident with the capsized canoe, where Sacajawea rescued much valuable material, without which L&C would have been in a bad way. L&C acknowledge this, I would not go so far to say as the book does that Sacajawea single-handedly saved the expedition, such dangers happening routinely to the party. The book like others in the series is a valuable supplement to the "Who Was" series, and will bridge interest in the icon herself to the history of Native Americans generally. (Spoiler alert: it won't be pretty).

We are trying to get my 10 year old niece to spend more time reading and less time playing video games, so when she told me that she needed to read a biography for a fifth-grade book report, I went looking for something that would catch and hold her interest. This book did it. She has been interested in Native culture, and the fact that the book is about a "famous girl" (her words), immediately got her hooked. Her teacher confirmed that the topic and reading level were appropriate, and away she went, reading most of the book in one sitting. Then she went and found pictures and created a visual presentation for her book report. Awesome. As the editorial reviews point out, nearly all that is known about Sacagawea comes from the journals of Lewis and Clark, and is therefore necessarily biased. Still, the author manages to give sensitive treatment to the story of this rather extraordinary young woman, who lived a hard life, and played a significant role in the establishment of this country. This looks to be a great series for kids, and we will be getting more of these books.

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I love this series! They are great, easy-to-read, fact based biographies that my children have grown up with. Sacagawea was our first book because of my daughter's obsession and from there we moved to other strong historical women, such as Helen Keller and Amelia Earhart. Then we would find subjects to correspond with whatever my kids were studying at school. Really, really recommend this series!!!

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