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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 tribe did Sacajawea belong to?
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.
Is Sacagawea's real name Sacagawea Sacagawea or Sakakawea?
I have a friend, he is part Native American, and is very influenced by his culture. He speaks many Native American languages. He said that it is spelled Sacajawea, (or Sacagawea, either is acceptable) and most people pronounce it that way. But the correct way to pronounce it sounds like sakakawea, but again it is not spelled like that.
February 11, 1805
Sacagawea gives birth to PompeySacagawea, the Shoshone Indian interpreter and guide to the Lewis and Clark expedition, gives birth to her first child, Jean Baptiste Charbonneau.
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark first met the young Sacagawea while spending the winter among the Mandan Indians along the Upper Missouri River, not far from present-day Bismarck, North Dakota. Still only a teenager, Sacagawea was the wife of a French-Canadian fur trapper, Toussaint Charbonneau, who had purchased her from Hidatsa kidnappers the year before. The Hidatsa had taken Sacagawea from her homeland along the Continental Divide in modern-day southwestern Montana and southeastern Idaho, where she was the daughter of a prominent Shoshone chief. Viewing such captives as little more than slaves, the Hidatsa were happy to sell Sacagawea and another woman to Charbonneau, who used them as laborers, porters, and sexual companions.
That winter, Lewis and Clark hired Charbonneau as an interpreter for their projected expedition to the Pacific and back, provided he agreed to bring along his young wife. Lewis and Clark knew they would have to obtain horses from the Shoshone to cross the Continental Divide, and Sacagawea's services as an interpreter could prove invaluable. Charbonneau agreed, and she became the only woman to join the Corps of Discovery.
Two months before the expedition was to depart, Lewis and Clark found themselves with another co-traveler, who later proved useful in an unexpected way. On this day in 1805, Sacagawea went into labor. Lewis, who would often act as the expedition's doctor in the months to come, was called on for the first and only time during the journey to assist in a delivery. Lewis was anxious to insure his new Shoshone interpreter was in good shape for the arduous journey to come, and he later worriedly reported "her labour was tedious and the pain violent." Told that a small amount of the rattle of rattlesnake might speed the delivery, Lewis broke up a rattler tail and mixed it with water. "She had not taken [the mixture] more than ten minutes before she brought forth," Lewis happily reported.
Named Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, the cries of the healthy young boy announced the arrival of a new member of the Corps of Discovery. No one, it seemed, contemplated leaving Sacagawea and her infant son behind--when the party set out up the Missouri in April 1805, Sacagawea carried Jean Baptiste on her back in an Indian cradleboard. Nicknamed "Pomp" or "Pompey" by Clark, who developed a strong attachment to the boy, Jean Baptiste accompanied his mother on every step of her epic journey to the Pacific and back.
Mother and son both were invaluable to the expedition. As hoped, Sacagawea's services as a translator played a pivotal role in securing horses from the Shoshone. Jean Baptiste's presence also proved unexpectedly useful by helping to convince the Indians the party encountered that their intentions were peaceful-no war party, the Indians reasoned, would bring along a mother and infant.
When the Corps of Discovery returned east in 1805, Charbonneau, Sacagawea, and Jean Baptiste resumed the fur-trading life. Little is known of Sacagawea's subsequent fate, though a fur trader claimed she died of a "putrid fever" in 1812 at a Missouri River trading post. True to a promise he had made to Sacagawea during the expedition, Clark paid for Jean Baptiste's education at a St. Louis Catholic academy and became something of an adoptive father to the boy. A bright and charismatic young man, Jean Baptiste learned French, German, and Spanish, hunted with noblemen in the Black Forest of Germany, traveled in Africa, and returned to further explore the American West. He died in 1866 en route to the newly discovered gold fields of Montana.
What is the value of a 2009 Sacagawea Dollar?
September 3, 2009 The 2000-D Sacagawea dollar is worth $1 in circulated condition. In the more common uncirculated grades it is valued from $1.15 to $15 depending upon the actual condition of the coin.
Is Sacagaweas baby still alive?
Sacajawea eventually died and then clark leagaly adoppted the two kids 8 months after she had died
What is the motivation of Sacajawea?
Sacagawea's goals were to help Lewis and Clark find the Northwest Passage, although it did not really exist. She helped save their lives many times.
Is the Sacajawea coin real gold?
All Sacagawea coins are Brass. The US has not had a circulating gold coin since 1933.
That Sacagawea was eager to leave her brother?
because that was her home town and that was her brother
Much of Sacagawea's life is shrouded in mystery. The only documented part of her life was when she went on the Lewis and Clark expedition. Additionally, she was kidnapped by Hidatsas at an early age, so even if some parts of her life were known through her own memory, she may not have remembered before that. When she found her Shoshone tribe on the Expedition, her parents were probably both dead because it had been so long. Sacagawea's father's name is most likely unknown.
When did Sacajawea lead Lewis and Clark?
When Lewis and Clark wintered at the present site of Bismarck, North Dakota, there they met Sacagawea and her husband in 1804. Toussaint Charbonneau was interviewed to interpret Hidatsa for the Lewis and Clark expedition, but Lewis and Clark (esp. Clark) were not overly impressed with him. However, Sacagawea his wife spoke Shoshone and Hidatsa, so they hired Charbonneau on November 4, and he and Sacagawea moved into Fort Mandan a week later. Sacagawea was 16 or 17 at this time.
Where did Luis and Clark meet Sacagawea?
When Lewis and Clark wintered at the present site of Bismarck, North Dakota, there they met Sacagawea and her husband in 1804. Toussaint Charbonneau was interviewed to interpret Hidatsa for the Lewis and Clark expedition, but Lewis and Clark (esp. Clark) were not overly impressed with him. However, Sacagawea his wife spoke Shoshone and Hidatsa, so they hired Charbonneau on November 4, and he and Sacagawea moved into Fort Mandan a week later. Sacagawea was 16 or 17 at this time.
What are short facts about Sacajawea?
1. Sacajawea had a baby boy nicknamed " Pomp" which means 1st born on the trip with Lewis and Clark. 2. Sacajawea means " Bird Woman". 3.Sacajawea was born 1788 and died April 9, 1812. 4. Sacajawea gave birth to her daughter, Lizette sometime after 1810.
To me the four facts are when she was 13 years old, she was kidnapped by a tribe of Hidatsa Indians.
She was sold to a french-canadian fur trader named Toussaint Charbonneau and made her one of his wives.
When Sacagawea was born George Washington was president.
And that she didn't have a proper education. So she was sort of home schooled.
What did Sacagawea accomplish?
Sacajawea helped Lewis and Clark on their expedition. Sacagawea was 16 or 17 when she and her husband, Toussaint Charbonneau, joined the Lewis and Clark expedition on November 4, 1804. Later study suggests that through most of the journey she was not so much a "guide" as a mediator. But she did become 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 died a few months after giving birth to her second child.
Does Sacajawea have any relatives still alive?
it is possible because she probably has a great great great great grandaughter
Why did Sacagawea get married at 13?
She was forced into it. Some say it was because she was "bought" and some say it is because she was "won."
It can also be spelled Sacagawea.
Most people pronounce it sack-uh-juh-whee-uh or sack-uh-juh-way-uh
but the more accurate pronunciation is suh-kah-kuh-weigh-uh.
How old was Sacajawea's children when she died?
She would give birth during the expedition to Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau on February 11, 1805. Six years after the expedition ended in 1806, Sacagawea gave birth to a daughter, Lisette on December 22 1812.
How did Sacagawea save Lewis' life?
Sacagawea saves Lewis and Clark's lives because she knew the Shoshone people. Lewis and Clark were on the brink of starvation, when they found an Indian tribe. They were the Shoshone, Sacagawea's origin people. Since she knew them, and her family was there, Lewis and Clark got food and she saved their lives.
