Who Was Sacagawea, and How Did She Evolve as A Person?.
President Thomas Jefferson in 1803 asked for funding from Congress for Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to explore the western territories between the Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean. Not only to find a full trade route to the Pacific Ocean, but also to study the people and to trek new territories. Along the trek a new leader and important person in American history would emerge.
While camping at Fort Mandan, Lewis and Clark encountered Charbonneau and asked him to come West with them as their interpreter. They wanted him to talk peace for them to the natives to assure them an easy trip West. It was also under the understanding that Sacagawea, Charbonneau's wife, could also come along and be recruited as the interpreter through Toussaint. It is to my understanding that they didn't like Toussaint much, and that Sacagawea was really the one they wanted. They also knew that when they needed to cross the Rockies they would need help from the Shoshone's, who were well known as being horseman, and they wanted someone who spoke Shoshone. They knew Sacagawea spoke Shoshoni as well as Hidatsu, which was an important trait because she could speak to the Shoshone and get horses for them. Although Sacagawea was very young, Lewis and Clark knew they would need her desperately. Clark, more than Lewis, respected the Indians as fully human, and treated them as sources of information rather than as bothersome savages, like most explorers did. So, they both knew she would be useful. " they knew that his wife could speak Shoshoni as well as Minitari as well as French. And they knew that, that they needed to get horses from the Shoshoni in order to make the crossing over the Rockies, over the Bitterroots, and the Shoshoni were the Indians living closest to the Bitterroots" says Erica Funkhouser, a historian (Funkhouser, PBS online) Also, the captains were okay with the idea of having a woman interpreter for the reason that they thought a woman on board of a ship of men makes them look less barbaric and more friendly.
Sacagawea was an important member of the Shoshone tribe. ... After winter, Sacagawea had given birth to her baby, Jean Baptiste. ... He had to bring Sacagawea and the new baby along too. ... Not to mention, they needed a native translator and negotiator who was familiar with the language, the tribes, and the customs. ... How Sacagawea died is not very certain. ...
Charbonneau had a wife named Sacagawea who was only fifteen years old. ... " Sacagawea and Charbonneau both wanted to come along with Lewis and Clark on the expedition, but Sacagawea was pregnant. ... That same day The Corps of Discovery continued their journey west, now with Sacagawea, Charbonneau and the baby boy who Clark nicknamed "Pomp.... Sacagawea was a great help to the expedition. ... Sacagawea was asked to come in to translate, and to her surprise the chief was her brother, Cameahwait, who she had not seen in years. ...
He said that Jefferson and Lewis planned and mapped out the trip and that Lewis wanted a partner who could recruit volunteers. ... January 20, 1804 We met a Scottish trader named James Mackay, working for Spain, who visited Clark today. ... Lewis met Charbonneau, his wife's name is Sacagawea. ... Sacagawea was excited to be in her native lands. ... Sacagawea was also allowed to vote. ...
A french man by the name of Toussaint Charbonneu and his Shoshoni wife, Sacagawea joined them on their journey. ... Now they were on foot and they ran into some Shoshoni Indians, who happened to be led by Sacagawea brother Cameahwait. ... S. history because who knows how long it would have took if the President sent people that did not know what they were doing, to discover all of the artifacts and plants they discovered. ...
Lewis and Clark had hoped to stay near Mandan and Hidatsa tribes who were Buffalo hunters and traders. ... Charbonneau was a French fur trader who was living with the Hidatsa tribe and married two Shoshone women who were captured in a Hidatsa raid. The captains asked that he bring one wife as an interpreter when they encounter the Shoshone tribe, he chose to bring his pregnant wife Sacagawea who was sixteen years old. Once the winter snow began to melt Sacagawea had her child Jean Baptiste, and they continued again up the Missouri River. ... Sacagawea also gave the members of the Corp much ins...
Lewis and Clark chose expert woodsmen and hunters who were used to manual labor and military discipline to join the expedition. ... During the winter, a French-Canadian trader named Toussaint Charbonneau and his wife Sacagawea, a Shoshone Indian, became members of the expedition. Sacagawea became very helpful on the expedition as an interpreter. ... As they were reaching the mountains, the group hoped to great friendly Indians who would provide horses and information to lead the party through the region. Fortunately, during mid-August, they met a group of Shoshone Indians whose Chief was S...
Sacagawea who followed her husband on the mission was valuable to Lewis and Clark. ... " When not using sign language, Sacagawea spoke Minitari with Charbonneau ( her husband), who rendered it in French to be translated into English by George Drouillard... The land that they gained was significant because it increased the farmland and there was more opportunities for Americans who failed in the east to start a new life in the west. ...
I always try to be like a people who are in tune with feelings and caring for people. ... He used to see only positive side of everything like Lewis and Clark expedition of Sacagawea. ... If we say that someone cannot relate to other people, it simply means that the person has never been in such condition and has never experienced such feelings, hence difficult for him to show empathy towards the person who has actually gone through those experiences and feelings. ...
