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Learning well-nigh American history is a project that my daughter and I love to share. Discovering facts about the past, enlightens the futurity.

U.S. Sacagawea Golden Dollar

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Here are 25 fascinating and insightful facts which tell the true story of a young Native American Igirl. This girl was kidnapped as a immature teenager past a rival tribe and swiftly passed on to be the wife of a French-Canadian fur trapper.

Sacagawea was employed, along with her husband, Toussaint Charbonneau, to go with the great Lewis and Clark Expedition, or the Corps of Discovery, on a 3,700-mile trek. She aided the expedition with her skill in interpreting for trades with Native Americans on the journey.

She also helped to guide the way on the long trek. She cooked, cleaned and mended clothes —all while caring for her tiny infant son. She was a remarkable symbol of independence and endurance. Her spirit lives on to this day.

3 Facts About Sacagawea's Name

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1. The name is often pronounced sack-uh-guh-wee-a. Although at that place's plenty of debate most that, it is currently considered to be the most common spelling of her name and the one that is most widely used. At that place are many variants of her name but this is the spelling used almost by modern historians and this spelling is as well on the year 2000 Dollar money which features her.

ii. She is likewise known as Sakakawea, an anglicized form, which is said to exist derived from tsakaka wia from the Hidatsa (Minnetarees) language. This spelling means bird adult female - sakaka meaning bird and wea meaning woman. Her married man told other people that her name had this pregnant which seems to corroborate it.

iii. The Lemhi Shoshone, the Northern Shoshone tribe that she was built-in into, refer to her as Sacajawea which comes from the Shoshone word for her name, Saca tzah nosotros yaa. This variant of her name means boat puller or gunkhole launcher.

4 Facts Virtually Her Early Life

4. Not a great deal is known or recorded on her early years. She was built-in around 1788 as the daughter of a Lemhi Shoshone chief and was of the Akaitikka, Agaideka or Eaters of Salmon tribe. They were traditionally based about the Idaho upper Salmon River, hence the 'Eaters of Salmon' name.

5. Sacagawea was kidnapped along with several other girls in 1800. At that betoken, she would accept been well-nigh 12 years sometime. The kidnappers were an enemy tribe called the Hidatsa Indians (Minnetarees) who took the girls to what is the present-24-hour interval Due north Dakota.

6. At the tender age of 13, she was either bought or won in gambling past a man called Toussaint Charbonneau. He took her and another woman to be his wives though it is non known past what custom they were bound.

seven. Her hubby, Charbonneau, was a French-Canadian Trapper, originally from Quebec. He worked every bit a fur trapper and also an interpreter of the Hidatsa tribes when he settled amongst them. He is not written about in a particularly favorable calorie-free.

8 Facts About the Lewis and Clark Expedition

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8. Sacagawea and Charbonneau were invited to join an expedition past Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. The trip which started on the 14th May 1804, is often referred to as the Corps of Discovery. It was a 3,700-mile journey from the Mississippi River to explore newly acquired western lands and discover a route to the Pacific Ocean. She was to be the only woman on the trip and was there as a Shoshone interpreter.

ix. During the trek, Sacagawea and Charbonneau worked as translators or language interpreters. Sacagawea didn't speak English language and so she conversed with the Shoshone and then translated to Hidatsa to her husband. Charbonneau, who also didn't speak English language, translated this into French to another expedition member, Francois Labiche, who so translated this into English language for the trek leaders.

10. She gave birth to her son, Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, on Feb 11, 1805. The boy was given the nickname Piddling Pomp or Pompey from the expedition leader, Clark and other members.

11. The Sacagawea River in Montana was named in her accolade on the 20th May 1805 after she rescued journals and records by Lewis and Clark after a canoe boat almost capsized in a storm.

12. During the expedition, she had an emotional reunion with her blood brother, Cameahwait, who was now a principal in a band of the Shoshone Indians. Their meeting, in Baronial 1805, was 1 of happy chance. The expedition party needed to trade with the Shoshone for horses so they could cross the Rocky Mountains.

13. The Lewis and Clark trek had a difficult time traveling over the Rocky Mountains, so bad that they might have had to survive by eating beef fat tallow candles. Sacagawea helped the group regain strength when they got to the other side of the mountains past cooking camas roots.

14. Sacagawea's blue beaded belt was used to barter for a beautiful fur robe made of sea otter skins that Lewis and Clark wanted for a souvenir for the then president Thomas Jefferson.

fifteen. Sacagawea was useful to the expedition which concluded in September 1806 in a variety of roles. She was an interpreter but also as an occasional guide, a symbol of peace to Indian tribes who they encountered forth the way which discouraged their political party from existence attacked. She was also a food gatherer and cook, a cleaner and someone who could repair wearing apparel.

6 Facts About the Expedition's Aftermath

16. Sacagawea was never really paid for her part in the expedition. Because she was a woman, it was her husband who was paid with money and land for his and his wife's assistance and assistance on the trip.

17. After the expedition, Charbonneau and Sacagawea spent three years amid the Hidatsa before settling down in 1809 in St. Louis, Missouri.

xviii. A daughter, Lizette or Lisette, was built-in sometime afterwards 1810 to her. Non much is known about Lizette and information technology is idea that she may have died in childhood.

19. Sacagawea is reported to have get sick in 1811 and died in 1812 from some kind of fever or sickness.

twenty. Jean Baptiste, along with his younger sister, Lizette, was adopted by the expedition leader, Clark, after she died. Clark was very addicted of Jean Baptiste and had stated his desire to enhance him as his ain son at the end of the expedition. In fact, Jean Baptiste had been entrusted into Clark's intendance before the death of his mother and given a boarding school pedagogy.

21. Jean Baptiste, held a kind of celebrity status as the but child who went on the Lewis and Clark expedition. He spent 6 years living with German royalty subsequently he was befriended by a prince.

4 Final Facts

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22. During the expedition, she had been given certain rights such equally the permission to vote for where a fort would be congenital that the expedition party could stay in during the winter months. Sacagawea became a bit of a office model for suffragists, such as The National American Woman Suffrage Association of the early on 20th century. This association sought voting rights for women. She was adopted as a symbol of independence.

23. Many tributes to her and her contribution to the Corps of Discovery have been created such as identify names, statues, lakes, and buildings. She was even featured on the 2000 upshot of the dollar coin.

24. The picture on the year 2000 dollar coin is not actually Sacagawea because no-one knows what she looked similar and no moving-picture show exists. The face on the coin was that of a modern Shoshone-Bannock adult female chosen Randy'L He-dow Teton.

25. She was featured in the 2006 comedy movie, Night at the Museum. The nighttime guard, played by Ben Stiller, had existent problem pronouncing her name. She has been in many books, documentaries, movies and fifty-fifty songs. Her spirit really does live on.

© 2011 Marie

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