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Sacagawea (/ ˌ s æ k ə dʒ ə ˈ w iː ə / SAK-ə-jə-WEE-ə or / s ə ˌ k ɒ ɡ ə ˈ w eɪ ə / sə-KOG-ə-WAY-ə; also spelled Sakakawea or Sacajawea; May c. 1788 – December 20, 1812, or April 9, 1884) was a Lemhi Shoshone woman who, in her teens, helped the Lewis and Clark Expedition in achieving their chartered mission objectives by ...
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 · 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 · Sacagawea was a Shoshone interpreter best known for being the only woman on the Lewis and Clark Expedition into the American West.
Sacagawea was an interpreter and guide for Meriwether Lewis and William Clark’s expedition westward from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Coast. Though 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”).
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...
May 2, 2024 · Sacagawea, famous member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, while traveling up the Missouri River from St. Louis to the Northern Plains area, stayed the night at Fort Osage. On Thursday April 25, 1811, as a member of a group of travelers led by Manuel Lisa, Sacagawea, along with her husband Toussaint Charbonneau,
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.
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.
Dec 5, 2023 · How was Sacagawea different than the woman we read about in those journals? Whoever she was, Sacagawea has captured the imagination of so many people over the last two hundred years. In the 1910s, women fighting for suffrage used Sacagawea as an example of a woman casting a vote.
