Great Indian Explorers

 

The text from which I am currently teaching has a short model passage on tr he topic of “great explorers on land, in space, and under the sea.” Neil Armstrong for space, Jacques Cousteau for sea, and, for the land—Sacajawea.

So far as we know, Sacajawea was not an explorer. She accompanied Lewis and Clark on their expedition, and sometimes acted as an interpreter. Her main value was as an indication that they were not a war party.

An ugly example of affirmative action history.