"A woman with a party of men is a token of peace." as Clark noted in his journal. Which also gave the captains a head up with the natives. " sometimes we don't realize and that is by carrying a woman along, especially a woman who was carrying an infant, said to tribes this is not a party that is out for aggressive reasons. This is not a war party." (Least, PBS online) .
There are many legends and stories that are believed to be true about where Sacagawea was born, grew up, and lived. This is the one that I researched through my information, to whom knows if it is true or not. To my knowledge Sacagawea was born the daughter of the Shoshone chief (Idaho) but was captured at age eleven by an enemy tribe, the Hidatsa (or Minitari) of Knife River (North Dakota). Later to be sold (or won as some believe) as the "wife" a la facon du pays (after the fashion of the country) of Toussaint Charbonneau (a French-Canadian trapper/fur trader). Sacagawea would then live with Toussaint at his Mandan Village home. Sacagawea was very young at the time; one story tells me she was only fourteen. A few months after she was "married" and she was pregnant. Charbonneau's pregnant wife gave birth to a baby boy at Fort Mandan, February 11, 1805, and was given the Christian name Jean Baptiste Charbonneau. Nicknamed Pomp by Clark, Pomp was brought along to the Pacific and back to Mandan during 1805-1806. Later, Pomp was taken in by William Clark, who had grown fond of him; while his father, Toussaint Charbonneau, returned to work with the American Fur Company. "Sacagawea played an important role, not as a guide as she's been mythologized into, but as a person who could read the landscape fairly well. I think she could read rivers. She could read a valley, you know. She had a sense of what the landscape said about direction and where they, where they were going" explains Erica Funkhouser, a historian. (Funkhouser, PBS online) When the captains reached the Pacific, in November 1805, they needed to contact the Shoshone tribe, in which to borrow horses they required in order to hike across the "Rock Mountains".
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. ...
