The Value of Adventure: The Story of Sacagawea

ValueTales Series

by Ann Donegan Johnson

A brief biography emphasizing the value of adventure in the life of the Shoshoni Indian woman who acted as a guide for the Lewis and Clark expedition.

Genres: Biography, Childrens, Picture Books, History, American History, Nonfiction

62 pages, Hardcover

First published February 1, 1981

Reviews

[Jessica John · Rating 1 out of 5]

A line from page 57 reads. "She came quietly into the tent of the chief, and her eyes were cast down, as was becoming for a modest Indian woman." This book is disrespectful to my culture. First of all none of us came from India so most of us that are educated do not like being called Indians. The proper term ,if you do not know the particular tribe, is Indigenous. The illustrations remind me of old racist cartoons. They don't do any of "Us" justice watering down our hardships for their little whitewashed curriculums. By the way many tribes were Matriarchal societies.

[Jenna · Rating 5 out of 5]

I liked it

[C.G. Fewston · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this book when I was a kid and remember it fondly, and will have to revisit it with my children.

[Angie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Had some good detail about Sacagawea’s life up to and including her time with Lewis and Clark. It ends with her arrival at the Pacific, however, which was quite early in her life, but is the most well-k own aspect of it. Though the story is “narrated” by a turtle she befriends, the author makes clear that this is simply an imaginative tool for the storytelling.

[Suzanne Lorraine Kunz Williams · Rating 3 out of 5]

How I wish this book talked more about how wrong it is to steal people and make them slaves or to gamble for people and make them your slave/wife. How thankful I am that times have changed.