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Sacagawea (often spelled Sacajawea) was recorded as having died of a fever at the age of 24 or 25, on December 20, 1812, leaving behind her infant son Jean. (born 1810).

Unfortunately there were no medical experts available so the exact nature of her illness is unknown. However, an oral tradition among Amerindian tribes is that she actually left her French trapper husband and remarried into a Comanche tribe, raising a family and dying at the age of 123 in 1894.


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.
sacagawea's death date and place is 1812 and the place is county,idaho or kenel, South Dakota
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