Sacagawea

1788-1812
Born in 1788, in Lemhi River Valley ( near present-day Salmon, Idaho).

Was an important figure in She helped the expedition members

American history who went find a passageway through the

unexplored Northwest land of her

on the famous Lewis and
own tribe. Even though she knew
Clark Expedition. Was a
that she was assisting Americans in
Lemhi Shoshone Indian
their invasion of her peoples’ sacred
woman who spoke Shoshone, territory.

Hindatsa, and English. Being Skilled at finding edible plants. She was

a guide as an interpreter was riding on a boat and it flipped over, she

an essential part in the saved some of its cargo, including

success of expedition. important documents and supplies. She

also served as a symbol of peace — a

group traveling with a woman and a child

were treated with less suspicion than a

group of men alone.

Age of 12, she was kidnapped

from her tribe by a group of

Hindatsa people, an enemy tribe

of the Shoshone. When 13, she

became one of the two wives of

Toussiant Charbonneu, a

French- Canadian fur trader. He

Sacagawea was living in Fort Manuel
either purchased her or won her
when she died on December 20, 1812.
in gambling. In 1804, her baby
The cause of her death was a typhus, a
was born, Jean Baptiste.
parasite bacterium spread by fleas. This

disease is deadly unless treated with

antibiotics.
Source: http://famous-explorers.org/sacagawea/
https://www.biography.com/people/sacagawea-9468731
http://www.sacagawea-biography.org/controversy-of-death/