In the 1930s a teacher on the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming, assigned her students to record a, story from an elderly person when she discovered that her students knew little about the oral traditions of their people. One of the stories recorded; was the following about Sacagawea: Sacajawea was a Shoshone girl who lived with her people in the valleys of the Rocky Mountains. Out planting one day, she and her playmates heard a war-whoop. They started to run to their teepees. Sacajawea tripped and fell, ' and the enemy reached her. . .

Sacajawea was a beautiful girl. A warrior picked her up and threw her on his horse. He rode off and carried her to his own tribe, the Minnetarees.

She lived there for many moons. Traders came there to get beaver skins in exchange for gaudy knick-knacks. Charbonneau was one...