The true story of Sacajawea - Karen Mensing
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-true-story-of-sacajawea-karen-mensing In the early 19th century, a young Agaidika teenager named Sacajawea was enlisted by explorers Meriwether...
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You might think you know a lotabout Native Americans through popular movies,books,and classes in school,but it turns out that a lot of what we think we knowabout famous Native American figuresisn't quite right.Take Sacajawea for example.You probably remember heras a beautiful Indian woman who lived an exotic lifeserving as the all-knowing guidefor Lewis and Clark's famous expedition, right?Well, that's not exactly how it happened.Not much is known about Sacajawea's early childhood,but we do know that she was born in 1788into the Agaidika Tribeof the Lemhi Shoshone in what is now Idaho.In 1800, when she was about 12 years old,Sacajawea and several other girlswere kidnapped by a group of Hidatsa Indians.She was taken as a captive to a Hid...
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You might think you know a lotabout Native Americans through popular movies,books,and classes in school,but it turns out that a lot of what we think we knowabout famous Native American figuresisn't quite right.Take Sacajawea for example.You probably remember heras a beautiful Indian woman who lived an exotic lifeserving as the all-knowing guidefor Lewis and Clark's famous expedition, right?Well, that's not exactly how it happened.Not much is known about Sacajawea's early childhood,but we do know that she was born in 1788into the Agaidika Tribeof the Lemhi Shoshone in what is now Idaho.In 1800, when she was about 12 years old,Sacajawea and several other girlswere kidnapped by a group of Hidatsa Indians.She was taken as a captive to a Hid...
