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Sacajawea

To Be of Use

46 Did I show them the way to go as we went up the Great Muddy
River? No, Firstborn Son, how could I? Though I remembered well

being stolen from my people at the Three Forks, those Minnetarees who
took me did not come back to their village by boat. We came overland
on horses. So after we passed the creek where your father had trapped
beaver the year before, everything along the river was new to me.

47 But I was quick to show them how I could be of use to them, even
before the time came for me to help them speak with our people. Their
canoes and the two big boats were filled with wonderful things of all
sorts. They carried with them provisions of different kinds, including

salted meat and food that had been dried in preparation for a long
journey. But they did not have enough food with them to feed more
than twenty hungry mouths. They needed to hunt to survive.

48 The two captains were fine hunters. In those first days of travel their
talk was often of the animals they had been told about but had not
yet seen.

49 They talked especially about the One Who Walks Like a Man. That
is how our people always speak of the great bear, my son. If you do not

show respect to the bear, he will not respect you. So it was that I worried
when I heard the captains talk with excitement about hunting the
grizzly bear. I hoped they would remember to respect him. They had
many guns and they were great hunters, but even great hunters find it

hard to kill the Old One.

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