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🗓️ 8 July 2017
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Learn about the brave young Shoshone, Sacajawea, as she guides Lewis and Clark across the dangerous American wilderness in search of a better path to the West.
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1:06.9 | A long time ago, not many years after America had become its own country, much of the forests |
1:13.6 | and mountains and rivers hadn't been discovered. There was a vast area where natives and animals |
1:21.4 | lived and was still fresh and dangerous and wild. The new Americans were curious about this land, |
1:29.1 | wanted to know what plants and animals were there, and most importantly, how they could travel |
1:33.9 | across it to get to the other side of the country. Around this time, President Thomas Jefferson |
1:42.5 | bought all this land from France and asked one of his assistants, Maryweather Lewis, to go on an |
1:49.2 | adventure and discover this new land. It would be a dangerous mission, but Lewis was brave and bold |
1:56.5 | and loved discovering new places. He asked his friend, Lieutenant William Clark, to go with him. |
2:03.9 | So they gathered their team and supplies and a boat and headed off down the river on their daring |
2:09.9 | adventure to discover this uncharted American wilderness. A few years before this, |
2:19.2 | a little Indian girl was born far across the country near the Rocky Mountains. Her parents named |
2:25.7 | her Sacajawea. Her people were called the Shoshone and they lived amongst the trees and wild animals |
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