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The Native American woman who showed Lewis and Clark the way. By Johnna Rizzo. Sacagawea was not afraid. Although she was only 16 years old and the only female in an exploration group of more...
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Sacagawea was a member of the Shoshone Native American tribe. She helped Meriwether Lewis and William Clark explore parts of the western United States from 1804 to 1806. She traveled thousands of miles in the wilderness on the group’s journey to the Pacific Ocean.
- Sacagawea was born in 1788 near the Salmon River in what is now Idaho. She belonged to the Lemhi Shoshone tribe.
- She was kidnapped in 1800 by the Hidatsa tribe, enemies of the Shoshone Indians, during a buffalo hunt. She was only 12-years-old. She was taken to the Hidatsa-Mandan Indian settlement in what is now North Dakota.
- In 1804, French trader Toussaint Charbonneau bought or was given Sacagawea as payment for a gambling debt. She became his wife and they soon had a son.
- When Lewis and Clark met Sacagawea at the Mandan trading village, they knew she would be a valuable asset to their expedition. She spoke both Hidatsa and Shoshone and could help them negotiate for horses.
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Early life
There is little information that is definitively known about Sacagawea. At about thirteen years of age, Sacagawea was taken as a wife by Toussaint Charbonneau, a Quebecer trapperliving in the village. He had also taken another young Shoshone named Otter Woman as a wife.
The Lewis and Clark expedition
Sacagawea was pregnant with her first child when the Corps of Discovery arrived near the Hidatsa villages to spend the winter of 1804–1805. Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark built Fort Mandan. They interviewed several trappers who might be able to interpret or guide the expedition up the Missouri River in the springtime. They agreed to hire Charbonneau as an interpreter when they discovered his wife spoke Shoshone, as they knew they would need the help of Shoshone tribes at the head...
Later life and death
After the expedition, Charbonneau and Sacagawea spent three years among the Hidatsa before accepting William Clark's invitation to live in St. Louis, Missouriin 1809. Sacagawea gave birth to a daughter, Lizette, sometime after 1810. According to Bonnie "Spirit Wind-Walker" Butterfield, historical documents say that Sacagawea died in 1812 of an unknown sickness: 1. "An 1811 journal entry made by Henry Brackenridge, a fur dealer at Fort Manuel Lisa Trading Post on the Missouri River, stated tha...
Sacagaweais the most widely used spelling of her name. Lewis and Clark's original journals mention Sacagawea by name seventeen times, spelled eight different ways, all with a "g". The spelling Sacagawea was established in 1910 by the Bureau of American Ethnology as the proper usage in government documents. It would be the spelling adopted by the U....
The Sacajawea Interpretive, Cultural, and Educational Center, located in Salmon, Idaho, by the rivers and mountains of Sacajawea's homeland. It contains a small museum and gift shop, in a 71-acre (290,000 m2) park. It is "owned and operated by the City of Salmon, in partnership with the Bureau of Land Management, Idaho Governor's Lewis & Clark Trai...
Lewis and Clark reach the Shoshone camp led by Sacagawea.Marker of Sacajawea's assumed grave, Fort Washakie, WyomingSacajawea and Jean-Baptiste (1905), Washington Park (Portland, Oregon), Alice Cooper, sculptorKids learn about the biography and life of explorer and guide Sacagawea. Native American woman who helped Lewis and Clark.
Jun 25, 2024 · Sacagawea (Sacajawea), Shoshone Indian woman who, as interpreter, traveled thousands of miles with the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804–06), from the Mandan-Hidatsa villages in the Dakotas to the Pacific Northwest. Read here to learn more about Sacagawea.
Apr 5, 2010 · Who Was Sacagawea? Possibly the most memorialized woman in the United States, with dozens of statues and monuments, Sacagawea lived a short but legendarily eventful life in the American West.
