Kids can learn all about Sacagawea, who was only 16 when she made the famous journey across 4,500 miles of unexplored territory with Lewis and Clark as their guide. Illustrations.
Twelve-year-old runaway Jimmy Spoon is adopted by a Shoshoni family. In this story, which is based on historical fact, Jimmy learns how to adapt to the Native American way of life.
Rider, a half-breed wanted among his native Shoshone for murder, is bitter from the injustice. Emma Trent invested her life savings in passage on the wagon train bound for the Oregon Trail in 1862, only to be cruelly cast out by a greedy bunch of greenhorns. Rider comes to her rescue, but he demands a price: she must share his bed. Emma surrenders ...
1919. Illustrated with drawings by F. N. Wilson. This is the true story of Uncle Nick Wilson. He was a man who not only lived part of his life with the Shoshone Indians but rode for the Pony Express. Wilson, Wyoming is named after him.
A young boy named Spider announces to his family that he has been given a chance to participate in the school spelling bee but is fearful of standing in front of the entire community. One by one members of his Shoshone family encourage him and tell of how they conquered their own fears. Will Spider be able to overcome his phobia? Illustrated with ...
This book draws an accurate portrait of the woman who helped forge the trail across the West. Sold as a slave to a fur trader, Sacajawea later became his wife and met Lewis and Clark.
Tells the story of the Shoshoni Indian girl who served as interpreter, peacemaker, and guide for the Lewis and Clark Expedition to the Northwest in 1805-1806.
This remarkable study rescues from undeserved obscurity the name and reputation of Sacajawea -- a true Native American heroine. The volume also unravels the tangled threads of her family life and traces the career of her son Baptiste, the "papoose" of the Lewis and Clark expedition. 21 illustrations, including a map. Bibliography. Index. 6 ...
The Shoshone have lived in the Great Basin area of the western United States for more than a thousand years. Traditionally, small groups traveled from place to place, making use of the particular resources of their area. All Shoshone spoke a similar language, but bands living in different areas created their own ways of life. Today, there are more ...
This innovative cultural history examines wide-ranging issues of religion, politics, and identity through an analysis of the American Indian Ghost Dance movement and its significance for two little-studied tribes: the Shoshones and Bannocks. The Ghost Dance has become a metaphor for the death of American Indian culture, but as Gregory Smoak argues ...
'This book makes an unusual contribution to the large body of literature dealing with Native American music and its cultural context. Most important, it reports on the musical life of women in one Indian tribe, helping to balance a body of scholarship that has concentrated largely on men's musical activities.'--Bruno Nettl, Choice
Indian expert and historian, Brigham Madsen, tells the story of the Mountain Shoshoni culture -- from the fateful day in 1805 when Chief Ca-me-ah-wait met Lewis and Clark, to 1907 when the Lemhi moved to the Fort Hall reservation. Madsen explains, step by step, how pressure from the expanding white culture changed the Lemhi way of life.
After she is orphaned by an Native American raid, 15-year-old Carrie Hill is taken in by an English trapper named Beaver Dick. At first Carrie is unhappy to learn that Beaver Dick's wife, Jenny, is a member of the Shoshone tribe, but she eventually comes to respect and love Jenny for the person she is. The characters of Beaver Dick and his family ...
Sacajawea is one of America's true heroines as without her help, the Lewis and Clark Expedition across America would never have reached the Pacific Northwest - and the course of U.S. history would have been changed forever. Master storyteller Neta Frazier, author of "The Stout-Hearted Seven: Orphaned on the Oregon Trail", tells the story of this ...
Native Americans occupy a turbulent, romantic and painful place in our nation's history and consciousness. At once a symbol of a time long past and a living, vital presence today, Native Americans are not simply the first Americans, but an essential thread woven into the fabric of American life. Lifeways examines the existences carved out by each ...
When Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery set out in the spring of 1804, they had chosen to go on an unprecedented, extremely dangerous journey. It would be the adventure of a lifetime. Unlike others in the group, two key members did not choose to join the hazardous expedition: York, Clark's slave, and Sacajawea, considered to be the property of ...
When President Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark to find a route to the Pacific, it was Indian girl Sacajawea who taught them how to survive. Full-color illustrations.
People of the Wind River, the first book-length history of the Eastern Shoshones, tells the tribe's story through eight tumultuous decades -- from 1825, when they reached mutual accommodation with the first permanent white settlers in Wind River country, to 1900, when the death of Chief Washakie marked a final break with their traditional lives as ...
On October 20, 2001, a crowd gathered just east of Salmon, Idaho, to dedicate the site of the Sacajawea Interpretive, Cultural, and Education Center, in preparation for the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial. In a bitter instance of irony, the American Indian peoples conducting the ceremony dedicating the land to the tribe, the city of Salmon, and the ...
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