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Sacajawea (or Sacagawea) was born c. 1788. in an Agaidiku tribe of the Lemhi Shoshone in Idaho. In 1800, when she was about twelve, she and several other girls were kidnapped by a group of Hidatsa warriors during a battle. At about thirteen years of age, Sacagawea was taken as a wife by Toussaint Charbonneau, a French trapper living in the village, who had also taken another young Shoshone named Otter Woman as a wife. Lewis and Clark would winter at the present site of Bismarck, North Dakota, where they met her. Sacagawea was 16 or 17 when she and her husband, Toussaint Charbonneau, joined the Lewis and Clark party on November 4, 1804. She became invaluable as a guide in the region of her birth, near the Three Forks of the Missouri, and as a interpreter between the expedition and her tribe when the expedition reached that area. She would give birth during the expedition to Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau on February 11, 1805, whom Clark later raised and educated. She also quieted the fears of other Native Americans, for no war party traveled with a woman and a small baby. She was with the Corps of Discovery until they arrived back in St. Louis on September 23, 1806. She was with the Corps of Discovery until they arrived back in St. Louis on September 23, 1806. After the expedition, William Clark offered Toussaint and Sacajawea a place in St. Louis and a proper education for Jean-Baptiste (at a time where there was no opportunity for Native Americans to receive an education). Toussaint then took a job with the Missouri Fur Company, and stayed at Fort Manuel Lisa in present-day North Dakota. Evidence suggests that Sacagawea died at the fort in 1812. Some Native American oral traditions relate that rather than dying in 1812, Sacagawea left her husband Toussaint Charbonneau, crossed the Great Plains and married into a Comanche tribe, then returned to the Shoshone in Wyoming where she died in 1884. After her death, Toussaint signed over complete custody of his son Jean-Baptiste and his daughter Lisette over to William Clark.

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The expedition to explore the West included the help of a French trapper and his Shoshone wife. Who served as a guide and interpreter for the expedition?

Both Toussaint Charbonneau and Sacajawea served as interpreters. Toussaint was useful in bargaining with other trappers because he spoke French and Sacajawea could speak Shoshone and Hidatsa. Toussaint also served as the camp cook while Sacajawea became invaluable as a guide in the region of her birth, near the Three Forks of the Missouri.


Who was Sakagewae?

Sacagawea is better known for her accompaniment of Lewis and Clark on their expedition to explore the vast wilderness west of St. Louis, Missouri. She was also a Lemhi Shoshone Indian and traveled thousands of miles in that quest to help Louis and Clark as an interpreter and guide.


What Native American woman served as a guide on the Lewis and Clark expedition?

Sacagawea. In 1803 Meriwether Lewis and William Clark were given a mandate by President Thomas Jefferson to find a route west to the Pacific Ocean. In preparation for their expedition, Lewis and Clark moved into Fort Mandan. They soon hired Charbonneau as an interpreter for their expedition and as a bonus, Charbonneau's Shoshone/Hidatsa wife, Sacagawea, would accompany the expedition west. On February 11, 1805, shortly before the expedition was to set out, Sacagawea gave birth to her first child, a son. He was named Jean Baptiste Charbonneau and though not quite two months old at the onset of the expedition, the baby accompanied the group the entire way to the Pacific and back. While Sacagawea became known as the Corps of Discovery's guide in many history books, in actuality she was part interpreter, part peacekeeper, and part horse trader. Since Sacagawea knew both the Shoshone and Hidatsa languages, she translated the Shoshone into Hidatsa by speaking to her husband. He in turn translated the Hidatsa into French for the rest of the expedition.


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Which idian women sevred as a guide to Lewis and clark?

yes an Indian women named sacajewea, she was many many many things over that expedition.she was a guide, explorer,doctor, and also follower to many nation over the west of the expedition


How did sacagawea help leiws and clark?

Sacajawea helped the Lewis and Clark expedition immensely she guided through the far West got them food and was an interpreter of the many Indian tribes they encountered along the way. The Sioux were most troublesome and if it wasn't for her and the bartering she arranged between the expedition and the tribe the journey might have ended therein the Northern plains


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