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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

byJerry Stemach

Contents

Chapter 1 How My Mother Died . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Chapter 2 Prisoner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Chapter 7 Across the Rocky Mountains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Chapter 8 The Trip to the Sea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Chapter 9 The Way Back East . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Chapter 10 After the Great Adventure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

About the Author . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

4

mountains

Sacagawea

I live here.

I am Sacagawea.

Chapter 1: How My Mother Died 5

room

house

This is my room.

This is my house.

6

corn

food

This is my corn.

This is my food.

7

buffalo

This is not my buffalo. I want the buffalo.

8

the chief

I do not like the chief.

I like Otter Woman.

Chapter 2: Prisoner 9

boat

the chief’s wife

I like making boats.

I like the chief’s wife.

10

food

I like making trouble.

I like making food.

11

a bear

Old Bear

He looks like a bear.

This man is Old Bear.

Chapter 3: The Wives of Old Bear12

I am Old Bear’s wife.

13

Otter Woman is also his wife.14

We live here.

15

boat

The men came with guns.

Men came in boats.16

a map

We can help the men.

The men came with a map. 17