When I first began to teach courses in American Indian Education at North Dakota State University, (1) Esther Burnett Horne, Wind River Shoshone, a highly respected tribal elder and retired teacher of Wahpeton Indian School in Wahpeton, North Dakota, graciously became my mentor. She shared with me and my students oral traditions related to her great-great-grandmother Sacajawea, who had accompanied Lewis and Clark on their westward journey to the Pacific Ocean in 1805. She told of ...