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SACAGAWEA LEADS THE WAY

Some scraped hides or hung out strips of meat to dry, white others repaired the earth lodges to keep out the icy wind.

Sacagawea had lots of work to do, so she didn't know why Toussaint had dragged her away from the village.

“Who are these strangers you want me to meet?” she asked. “Anyway, I shouldn't be walking around this much. You know I'm pregnant!”

Her husband grumbled under his breath. He was a trader who came from France, which was a country beyond the eastern sea. He wasn't good at speaking Shoshone, the language of the Mandan tribe. However, he had decided to stay in North America when he fell in love

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