Book inspired Joyce Khoury in history project Joyce Khoury first
learned about Sacagawea, the Shoshone Indian woman who guided
the Lewis and Clark expedition, when she read Joyce Hunsaker’s
“Sacagawea Speaks.” Khoury, soon to be 13, found that she
“couldn’t stop reading” the book, and that led her to create a
project for this past year’s History Day competition that placed
seventh at the Washington State History Day competition held at
Central Washington University last May. Her interest has led to
the project being displayed at the Washington State History
Museum in Tacoma. “I just really liked Hunsaker’s book,” said
Khoury, who is the same age that Sacagawea was when she was
married to French trapper Toussaint Charbonneau. Sacagawea
carried her young son Baptiste while walking from what is now
eastern North Dakota to western Montana, where a chance meeting
with her brother resulted in the expedition’s being given
horses. “Without that, they wouldn’t have made it,” Khoury said.
Much of her research is aimed