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Sacagawea has gone through alot. She did not even know if her family was alive. She got traded to someone, she was in an attack and she was expecting a baby at the age of 15. Also she survived a very bad storm when she was on a pirogue.

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Sacagawea was born in either 1789 or 1790 but nobody knows. She was part of the Shoshone tribe. She lived in a tipi near the Rocky Mountains. They camped near the Snake River so they were often called the Snake Indians.

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Lewis and Clark needed someone who could speak Shoshone, so Sacagawea and her husband Toussaint Charbonneau went with them on the journey.

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On May 14, 1805 it was very foggy. They were in a pirogue and Sacagawea's husband was steering. They were 300 feet from shore when suddenly, wind came and the boat quickly filled up with water. Sacagawea saw their supplies floating away from them. She saved them.

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Sacagawea was about 10 or 11 when suddenly the Minnetaree Indians attacked. The Minnetaree had guns. The only things that the Shoshone had were bow and arrows. About 15 Shoshone had died during the attack. Sacagawea was running across a river when a warrior captured her. They rode away on a horse. The warrior gave her to a Minnetaree family. Next, a man named Toussaint Charbonneau wanted Sacagawea to be his wife. Sacagawea got traded to him. Just like that Sacagawea became one of his Indian wives.

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Sacagawea, The True Story - The Lemhi Shoshone Guide of the Lewis and Clark Expedition

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This article is about the Native American woman. For the Hewlett-Packard processor, see HP Sacajawea. For the coin, see Sacagawea dollar.

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Sacagawea was not afraid. Although she was only 16 years old and the only female in an exploration group of more than 45 people, she was ready to courageously make her mark in American history.

In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson bought more than 825,000 square miles of land from France in what was called the Louisiana Purchase. To explore this new part of the country, Jefferson sent Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on a two-year journey to report on what they found. They needed local guides to help them through this unknown territory. Sacagawea, a young Native American, joined them.

Born to a Shoshone chief around 1788, Sacagawea had been kidnapped by an enemy tribe when she was about 12, then sold to a French-Canadian trapper. When he was hired as a guide for Lewis and Clark's expedition in 1804, Sacagawea also joined as an interpreter to talk to Native-American people on their 8,000-mile journey.

Sacagawea soon became a respected member of the group. 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 1805, 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. Clark even praised her as his "pilot."

Sacagawea left the group to return to what is now Bismarck, South Dakota, before the triumphant return of Lewis and Clark to St. Louis, Missouri, in 1806. She received no pay for her services and died on December 20, 1812. But Sacagawea's bravery and skill live on in the expedition's journals, which are full of praise for the 16-year-old Shoshone girl who guided the most famous American expedition of all time.

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Sacagawea was not afraid. Although she was only 16 years old and the only female in an exploration group of more than 45 people, she was ready to courageously make her mark in American history. In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson bought more than 825,000 square miles of land from France in what was called the Louisiana Purchase.

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During the Louis and Clark expedition they found more land. Since they found this land, now different people in the United States can live there in the modern world.

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When Sacagawea had grabbed the supplies that fell out of the boat during the storm everyone on that expedition would have had to turn back. Since she did save those supplies they did not have to turn back.