Clark later nicknamed her "Janey." Lewis recorded the birth of Jean Baptiste Charbonneau on February 11, 1805, noting that another of the party's interpreters administered crushed rattlesnake rattles in water to speed the delivery. french man by Name Chabonah, who Speaks the Big Belley language visit us, he wished to hire & informed us his 2 Squars (squaws) were Snake Indians, we engau (engaged) him to go on with us and take one of his wives to interpret the Snake language.…Ĭharbonneau and Sacagawea moved into the expedition's fort a week later. On November 4, 1804, Clark recorded in his journal: Sacajawea was pregnant with her first child at the time. Knowing they would need to communicate with the tribal nations who lived at the headwaters of the Missouri River, they agreed to hire Toussaint Charbonneau, who claimed to speak several Native languages, and one of his wives, who spoke Shoshone. They interviewed several trappers who might be able to interpret or guide the expedition up the Missouri River in the springtime. In 1804, the Corps of Discovery reached a Mandan village, where Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark built Fort Mandan for wintering over in 1804–05.
Charbonneau was variously reported to have purchased both girls from the Hidatsa, or to have won Sacagawea while gambling. He had also bought another young Shoshone girl, known as Otter Woman, for a wife. Īt about age 13, she was sold into a non-consensual marriage to Toussaint Charbonneau, a Quebecois trapper. She was held captive at a Hidatsa village near present-day Washburn, North Dakota. In 1800, when she was about 12 years old, Sacagawea and several other children were taken captive by a group of Hidatsa in a raid that resulted in the deaths of several Shoshone: four men, four women, and several boys. This is near the continental divide at the present-day Idaho- Montana border. 1788 into the Agaidika ('Salmon Eater', aka Lemhi Shoshone) tribe near present-day Salmon, Idaho. Reliable historical information about Sacagawea is very limited. The National American Woman Suffrage Association of the early 20th century adopted Sacagawea as a symbol of women's worth and independence, erecting several statues and plaques in her memory, and doing much to recount her accomplishments. Sacagawea traveled with the expedition thousands of miles from North Dakota to the Pacific Ocean, helping to establish cultural contacts with Native American people and contributing to the expedition's knowledge of natural history in different regions. 1788 – Decemor April 9, 1884) was a Lemhi Shoshone woman who, in her teens, helped the Lewis and Clark Expedition in achieving their chartered mission objectives by exploring the Louisiana Territory. Sacagawea ( / ˌ s æ k ə dʒ ə ˈ w iː ə/ sack-uh-juh- WEE-uh or / s ə ˌ k ɑː ɡ ə ˈ w eɪ ə/ suh- COG-uh-way-uh also spelled Sakakawea or Sacajawea May c. Accompanied the Lewis and Clark Expedition
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