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Sacagawea ( / ˌsækədʒəˈwiːə / SAK-ə-jə-WEE-ə or / səˌkɒɡəˈweɪə / sə-KOG-ə-WAY-ə; [1] also spelled Sakakawea or Sacajawea; May c. 1788 – December 20, 1812) [2] [3] [4] was a Lemhi Shoshone woman who, in her teens, helped the Lewis and Clark Expedition in achieving their chartered mission objectives by exploring the ...
Jun 25, 2024 · On February 11, 1805, she gave birth to a son, Jean Baptiste. Sacagawea. Sacagawea and her son, Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, statue by Leonard Crunelle; at the North Dakota State Capitol grounds, Bismarck. (more) Departing on April 7, the expedition ascended the Missouri. On May 14, Charbonneau nearly capsized the white pirogue (boat) in which ...
Apr 5, 2010 · Sacagawea was a Shoshone Indian woman who accompanied the Lewis and Clark expedition in 1804-06, exploring the lands procured in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803.
Apr 3, 2014 · Best Known For: Sacagawea was a Shoshone interpreter best known for being the only woman on the Lewis and Clark Expedition into the American West. Death Year: 1812. Death State: South Dakota ...
Sacagawea was an interpreter and guide for Meriwether Lewis and William Clark’s expedition westward from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Coast. T hough spelled numerous ways in the journals of expedition members, Sacagawea is generally believed to be a Hidatsa name (Sacaga means “bird” and wea means “woman”). In that case, the third syllable starts with a hard g, as there is no ...
Sacagawea, a young Native American, joined them. Born to a Shoshone chief around 1788, Sacagawea had been kidnapped by an enemy tribe when she was about 12, then sold to a French-Canadian trapper. When he was hired as a guide for Lewis and Clark’s expedition in 1804, Sacagawea also joined as an interpreter to talk to Native-American people on ...
May 2, 2024 · Sacagawea and Cameahwait had not seen one another since their hunting camp near the Three Forks was attacked by Minitare (Hidatsa) warriors in about the year 1800. She and her sister, along with some other females and four boys, were captured by Hidatsa warriors and carried off to their village on the Missouri River near the mouth of the Knife in today’s North Dakota.
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.
Dec 5, 2023 · In the 1910s, women fighting for suffrage used Sacagawea as an example of a woman casting a vote. In 2000, the U.S. Mint put an image of Sacagawea and her baby on a dollar coin. There are more statues of Sacagawea in this country than of any other American woman. Perhaps it is because she was a woman—with a baby!—in a male space.
Jun 16, 2023 · Sacagawea, the only woman to travel with the Corps of Discovery, did this and more. In 1804, Sacagawea was living among the Mandan and Hidatsa, near present day Bismarck, North Dakota. Approximately four years earlier, a Hidatsa raiding party had taken Sacagawea from her home in Idaho and from her people, the Lemhi Shoshone.
