It's Her Story Sacajawea A Graphic Novel
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This graphic novel tells Sacajawea's extraordinary story from her early life and capture to her historic role as interpreter and guide for the Lewis and Clark Expedition across hundreds of miles of unmapped land to the Pacific.
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A Shoshone girl, multilingual and brilliant, was torn from her home at a young age. In 1804 she joined the Lewis and Clark Expedition as interpreter and guide, helping navigate hundreds of miles of unmapped land all the way to the Pacific Ocean. Nearly 200 years later, she became the first Indigenous woman to appear on a US coin. This graphic novel tells her extraordinary story in a visually compelling format.
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Sacajawea was a brilliant, multilingual Shoshone girl who was torn from her home at a young age. In 1804, she set out with the Lewis and Clark Expedition, acting as an interpreter and guide across hundreds of miles of unmapped land to reach the Pacific Ocean. Almost 200 years later, she became the first Indigenous woman to appear on a US coin. This is her story.
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