Author: - Lise Erdrich
Title: - Sacagawea
Illustrator: - Julie Buffalohead
Publisher: - Carolrhoda Books
Year: - 2003
Format: - Hardcover
Genre: - Bibliography
Reading Level: - Independent
Interest Level: - Middle to Late Elementary, Middle School
Topics: - Sacagawea, Lewis and Clark, Native Americans, The Corps of Discovery
Summary: - This bibliography tells what is know of the young girl Sacagawea who helped Lewis and Clark on their expedition—The Corps of Discovery—to the Pacific Ocean. The story begins with where Sacagawea was captured from her Shoshone community and taken to live among the Hidatsa people. It follows her journey with Lewis and Clark, and concludes with a summary of the theories of how and when she died. The story is turned alive by the beautifully painted illustrations that accentuate every page.
Extension Activity: - Students will imagine what it would have been like to have experienced what Sacagawea experienced by writing a series of journal entries from her perspective. These entries should focus on specific events in her life as well as the students’ ideas about what Sacagawea would have thought and felt during those times.
