Sacagwea info please?

Question

i want 2 know cuz i have a report to do and i can only get on the internet for a little so i have no time to do it myself please help me and remember it has to be interesting.

Answer 1

she was the indian woman who led the Lewis and Clark she was a translator although she spoke no english but could translate to Hidatsa to Charbonneau who would translate in french to francios Labiche who would translate in english to Lewis and Clark Sacagawea was a shashone indian woman she traveled with her infant son on the expedition she cooked cleaned, meneded the mens clothes and foraged for food, seein this woman travelin with her baby told the other indians that the whites she traveled with where friendly at the end of the expedition it was her husband that got paid for the work and not her. A woman who had lived to be 100 years old died in 1884 was mistakenly idenfitied as the shoshone woman Sacajawea in Wyoming I hope this helps ok kiddo good luck on your report

Answer 2

There are other resources. You don't need a computer. Try a library.

A near-legendary figure in the history of the American West for her indispensible role on the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Sacagawea has become an enigma for historians seeking to trace her later life.

The daughter of a Shoshone chief, Sacagawea was kidnapped by the Hidatsa when she was about ten years old and taken back to their village on the upper Missouri. There, she and another captive girl were purchased and wed by Toussaint Charbonneau, a French Canadian trapper.

Answer 3

In 1800, when she was about 12 years old, Sacagawea was kidnapped by a war party of Hidatsa Indians -- enemies of her people, the Shoshones. She was taken from her Rocky Mountain homeland, located in today’s Idaho, to the Hidatsa-Mandan villages near modern Bismarck, North Dakota. There, she was later sold as a slave to Toussaint Charbonneau, a French-Canadian fur trader who claimed Sacagawea and another Shoshone woman as his “wives.” In November 1804, the Corps of Discovery arrived at the Hidatsa-Mandan villages and soon built a fort nearby. In the American Fort Mandan on February 11, 1805, Sacagawea gave birth to her son Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau, who would soon become America’s youngest explorer.

Answer 4

As you're writing your report, you might think to talk about her ACTUAL importance as opposed to the inflated importance she's given in modern treatments. Here's an excerpt from an interesting article on the subject:

"Sacagawea is remembered as the guide of the Lewis and Clark expedition. Yet of a hundred or more references to her in the journals, fewer than a dozen mention her guiding, and what guiding she did was never pivotal. We can't hold that against her, though. Contrary to popular belief, she wasn't hired as a guide but as an interpreter. Here she was more important, but still not the key to the expedition's success, as she has been called."

Interestingly enough, if was the suffragettes in the early 1900s who first inflated the myth of Sacagawea being integral to the expedition in order to show that women could be self-reliant and powerful. Other myths included that she converted to Christianity before her death (unfounded), or that she left her husband after one too many beatings and struck out on her own (he did beat her, but she stayed).

Good luck on your paper!

Answer 5

She was Lewis and Clark's guide and interper on there expedition West exploring the newly purchased Louisiana Territory purchased by Thomas Jefferson from the French because they were currently in a war and needed money so they sold the Louisiana Territory, Thomas Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark to explore the land and they met Sacagwea a native American and she helped them and guided them West.