What did Lewis and Clark do to Sacagawea?

Answer 1

Lewis and Clark hired Sacagawea's husband, a French Canadian fur trapper named Charbonneau as an interpreter on their expedition of exploration between 1804 and 1806. They decided to also take Sacagawea because she spoke Shoshone and they knew that they would be encountering Shoshone tribes on their route. She was also useful in knowing how to find food when they were starving. In 1805, Sacagawea gave birth to a son on the journey and after the journey, when she and her husband had settled in St. Louis, Missouri, she gave birth to a daughter around 1810. Sacagawea died of natural causes in 1812.

Eight months after Sacagawea's death, William Clark formally adopted her two children, Jean Baptiste and Lisette. Charbonneau had already signed over custody of his son to William Clark in 1813, but Clark had to show that the child's mother was deceased in order to take custody of the daughter.

Native people believe that Sacagawea had left her husband and married into a Comanche tribe where she died in Wyoming in 1884. There is a grave in Fort Washakie, Wyoming inscribed with that date of death.

Answer 2

She translated for them, so that the Indians would understand that their land was on official US territory.