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Sacagawea
Sacagawea, also known as Sakakawea or Sacajawea, was the Native American guide of Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery. Over the two year expedition, she travelled from North Dakota to the Pacific Ocean.
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What happened to Sacagawea's children when she died?
Six years after the expedition ended in 1806, Sacagawea gave birth to a daughter, Lisette on December 22 1812. It is not known when Lisette died, although it is believed she did not survive infancy. However, we do know that both Lisette and her brother were legally adopted by William Clark eight months after Sacagawea's death.
How many years did Sacagawea traveled with Lewis and Clark?
Before Lewis met up with Clark, he began the expedition on August 30, 1803 in Pittsburgh PA. Lt. William Clark would offer to join Lewis on the expedition weeks later on October 13, 1803 at Camp Dubois (in present-day Indiana). From there, they sailed down the Ohio River towards St. Louis. In spring 1805, they continued to the headwaters of the Missouri River, struggled across the Continental Divide, and headed west along the Salmon, Snake, and Columbia Rivers to the Pacific. They landed at the mouth of the Columbia River, Astoria, Oregon. The expedition then ended on September 23, 1806 upon their return to St. Louis from Oregon.
If you don't believe me that the expedition began in Pittsburgh and NOT St. Louis, then follow the related link to the Louis and Clark Journals' first entry. As we all know, the common American history textbook likes to smudge the details.
What does Sacagawea look like?
Sacagawea was very tan. She had nice, black curvy eyebrows. Her head was round.
How many does siblings do sacagawea has?
Sacagawea had a son named Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau ("Little Pomp" or "Pompy") who was born on February 11, 1805 during the Lewis and Clark expedition. After the expedition, Clark would later raise and educate young Jean at a time where there was little opportunity for schooling for Native Americans. Her daughter Lizette was born in late 1810 or in 1811, before Sacajawea's reported death in 1812.
What character traits did Sacagawea have?
Sacajawea is a very strong hearted person; I know she was willing to save some of the information that we have today. I was known to say that Sacajawea boat was hit by a very hard rain storm. As she held her son Pomp on her back she managed to grab some journals; that kept there information in. The only reason why we still have these today is because they were in waterproof bags, and because Sacajawea grabbed them from the river.
How old was Sacagawea when she began the expedition?
She was about sixteen when she went with Lewis and clark on the expedition
When and where did Sacagawea die?
After the expedition, Sacagawea's husband Toussaint 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 on December 20, 1866. She would be buried on the grounds of the fort.
Did Sacagawea marry Lewis or Clark?
No she did not, at the time she joined the Lewis and Clark expedition she was already married to French trapper Toussaint Charbonneau. After the expedition, William Clark offered Toussaint and Sacajawea a place in St. Louis and a proper education for her son Jean-Baptiste (at a time where there was no opportunity for Native Americans to receive an education). After her death, Toussaint signed over complete custody of his son Jean-Baptiste and his daughter Lisette over to William Clark.
How old was charbonneau when he married sacagawea?
Sacajawea (or Sacagawea) was born c. 1788. Toussaint Charbonneau, a French Canadian trapper, acquired her from a Hidatsa warrior and took her as his wife when she was 13. After the expedition, Toussaint 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.
In either case, they would've been married for 11 years.
What do you think Sacajawea would contribute to society in the future?
Sacagawea was a Shoshone Indian who was married to Toussaint Charbonneau, who was hired by Lewis and Clark. She helped Lewis and Clark by acting as a translator and helped them get horses by trading.
Her strengths were: fishing, trailblazing, catching food, and being a translator.
What sort of house did Sacagawea live in?
the Shoshone (sacagawea's tribe) were nomadic so they had tepee like dwellings
Who was the dad of Sacagawea's Baby?
no one knows......sacageweas mom and dad where Jews who screwed alot??
Sacagawea was 16 or 17 when she and her husband, Toussaint Charbonneau, joined the Lewis and Clark party on November 4, 1804. She was with the Corps of Discovery until they arrived back in St. Louis on September 23, 1806. Therefore traveling time can be estimated to be about 2 years.
Sacagawea's grave is located in the Wind River Indian Reservation in Fort Washake in Wyoming. However, there are two different places where Sacagawea died, and her other grave is located in South Dakota. In one story, she lived to 100, and in the other, she only lived until 24.
What state is Sacagawea's birthplace?
Sacagawea was born in what was to become the US state of Idaho, possibly in the area near present-day Salmon in Lemhi County, Idaho.
