Her ability to speak the Native American languages helped greatly and her knowledge of the landscape proved invaluable. Sacagawea was and still is seen as a feminist figure, particularly in the Women's Rights and Suffrage Movements.
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On May 14, , Sacagawea rescued items that had fallen out of a capsized boat, including the journals and records of Lewis and Clark. She was skilled at finding plants for food and medicine to help keep the explorers alive.
When a boat capsized on the Missouri River as they were crossing into what is now Montana , Sacagawea saved important books and much-needed supplies. When they needed horses to cross rough terrain, she convinced a Shoshone tribe—led by her long-lost brother—to give them some. She was so respected by Lewis and Clark that when they reached the Pacific Ocean in November , Sacagawea was asked to cast her vote for where they should build a fort.
Sacagawea proved herself again after the group took a different route home through what is now Idaho. As they passed through her homeland, Sacagawea remembered Shoshone trails from her childhood and helped the expedition find their way through. Sacagawea left the group to return to what is now Bismarck, South Dakota , before the triumphant return of Lewis and Clark to St.
Lewis and Clark met Charbonneau and quickly hired him to serve as interpreter on their expedition. Even though she was pregnant with her first child, Sacagawea was chosen to accompany them on their mission. Lewis and Clark believed that her knowledge of the Shoshone language would help them later in their journey. Despite traveling with a newborn child during the trek, Sacagawea proved to be helpful in many ways.
She was skilled at finding edible plants. When a boat she was riding on capsized, she was able to save some of its cargo, including 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.
Sacagawea also made a miraculous discovery of her own during the trip west. When the corps encountered a group of Shoshone Indians, she soon realized that its leader was actually her brother Cameahwait. It was through her that the expedition was able to buy horses from the Shoshone to cross the Rocky Mountains. Despite this joyous family reunion, Sacagawea remained with the explorers for the trip west. After reaching the Pacific coast in November , Sacagawea was allowed to cast her vote along with the other members of the expedition for where they would build a fort to stay for the winter.
They built Fort Clatsop near present-day Astoria, Oregon, and they remained there until March of the following year. Sacagawea, her husband, and her son remained with the expedition on the return trip east until they reached the Mandan villages. Sacagawea had proved her value again, this time as an interpreter and mediator. By the end of August, she had bid farewell to her brother and was continuing westward with her husband and the explorers.
Although it was still technically summer, the travelers faced snow, cold and near starvation before they finally reached a Nez Perce village on the other side of the mountains in present-day Idaho. From this point on in the westward journey, Sacagawea was no doubt as unfamiliar with the geographic features as the others.
She certainly was not someone who could guide them to the West coast. Still, her presence—and that of her baby—was important.
Clark wrote in his journal entry for October 13, , that Sacagawea reconsiles all the Indians, as to our friendly intentions—a woman with a party of men is a token of peace. Relations were friendly with the Nez Perce people. Starvation was no longer a concern, but after they had stuffed themselves on camas a root the Nez Perces used to make bread and salmon, indigestion and diarrhea were. Still, they were able to make new canoes and to gain information from the Nez Perces about the path, or rivers, ahead.
On November 15, , they saw the shine of the Pacific…after this the expedition raised the Stars and Stripes above the great Pacific Ocean. The 23 men, the usually drunk French-Canadian Charbonneau, Sacajawea and her son Pomp had a very hard winter there on the coast, White wrote.
Food was scarce, and Sacajawea gave a starving and sick Clark some bread she had been carrying with her in a little leather pouch that had been intended for her child. One day in January, Clark and some of the others, including Sacagawea, ventured from camp to check out a beached whale.
The starving men came upon a beached whale and began to overeat, not realizing how the concentrated fats and oils would affect their bodies, White wrote. They became deathly ill. Years later, the men would tell the story of how they would have surely died had it not been for a little Indian girl who somehow miraculously was able to know what the dying men needed to recover.
Sacajawea spent days upon end searching for and trying to grow and cultivate fennel roots,…a perennial herb of the carrot family…for its aromatic seeds. At one of the Indian camps, Clark noticed an exquisitely made sea otter coat. He had to have it! White wrote. Nevertheless, he lost his head and offered whatever they had left…to the Indian woman for the beautiful fur coat. He must have it…they must see it in St. Louis and the president of the United States [Jefferson] must see it. Unfortunately, the Indian woman was not tempted to trade with Clark.
She shook her head and made negative motions with her hand. The coat was not for sale. She walked away leaving a dejected and disappointed Clark, who went to his tent to lick his wounds. The next morning, as the camp and men were packing up…they noticed that Sacajawea was missing.
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