although not much is known about the time when Sacagawea was young, it is believed that she was born around 1788 in Lehmi River Valley, Idaho of her Shoshone village.Her exact death year is unknown. Some say she lived until 1884, dying in a southern indian tribe, after leaving her abusive husband. Other people say she died in 1812, shortly after giving birth to her daughter. Sacagawea was captured during war between her Northern Shoshone Tribe and the Hidatsas from the Metaharta, North Dakota, Knife River Village between the ages of 12 and 14. Before that, she was told to be a part of the Agaiduka or the Salmon Eater Band in her original tribe. After her capture, she was sold to the French-Canadian Toussaint Charbonneau, who was a fur trader …show more content…
This information is derived from the journal left behind by William Clark. Sacagawea married Toussaint Charbonneau, who bought Sacagawea, before Lewis and Clark showed up at Fort Mandan, in 1804, to take shelter durring winter. At the fort, they hired Toussaint Charbonneau as a translator of their expedition. They asked him to bring one of his Native American wives in hopes of them knowing the …show more content…
Her different spellings consist of; Sakakawea, Tsakakawea, Sacajowa, and Saykijawee, Sacagawea Sahcargarweah, and Sacajawea.Sacagawea was known as Bird Woman, Boat Pusher, Chief Woman, Lost Woman, and Grass Woman in different tribes across the Louisiana perchase territory.Her nickname on the expidition was Janey, this was given to her by William Clark due to her inspiring strength and serviceSacagawea not only attended an important expedition of the Louisiana Territory with her husband, child, Lewis, and clark, but she also was looked up to by many Native Americans and Lewis and Clark themselves. Her peaceful and determined efforts on the Lewis and Clark expedition gravely helped the mission become a success. Sacagawea is a symbol of femininity and strength of minorities due to her role as a cultural interprator in the expedition. Due to this, they put her on the dollar coin in 2000. The fact that Sacagawea took care of an infant child on a journey accross the country is inspiring to me. Having to take care of yourself, your child, and make sure 3 other people are well fed and hydrated seems a very hard. Many things could have gone wrong. Not just that, but being able to peacfully nogotiate and communicate with tribes throught the area would be a difficult task, yet she
If Saint Domingue didn’t get captured, then what would happen? What if Napoleon conquered America? Where would the world be today? The expedition led by Lewis and Clark explored the Louisiana Purchase and established good relations with the Native Americans. Lewis and Clark have affected the United States’ development historically and geographically and through their relationships with Native Americans.
Thesis Statement: Lewis and Clark took a journey that would last over 3 years, and made many discoveries about the plants and wildlife, they met Sacagawea who translated and her presents allowed for better communication to open trade with the Indians, but also gained knowledge for maps that would be used for future exploration. President Thomas Jefferson commissioned Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to explore the land gained from the Louisiana Purchase and to let the native American Indians of that area know there was a new presidency. President Jefferson wanted them to record their findings; animals, plants, and locations. Lewis and Clark took a journey that would last over 3 years, and made many discoveries about the plants and wildlife, they met Sacagawea who translated and her presents allowed for better communication to open trade with the Indians, but also gained knowledge for maps that would be used for future exploration.
Sacagawea is a Shoshone Indian who helped navigate during the Lewis and Clark expedition. Her name means “Bird Woman’’ in Shoshone and “Boat Launcher’’ in Hidatsa. Sacagawea was born in 1788 Lemhi County, Idaho. Sacagawea is the daughter of the Shoshone chief. She not only helped navigate around the wilderness, but she was a good spokesperson between the Native Americans and explorers.
During the Corps Of Discovery Expedition led by Lewis and Clark, Sacagawea encountered many new things or people. As they were exploring, Sacagawea and the expedition party were able to exchange beliefs and ideas between who they came across. Now because of these exchanges it changed the culture for both Sacagawea, the Corps, and the new people they 've
Many people have filled books with the vast knowledge of her accomplishments. Sacagawea was a strong woman that had many leadership and survival skills. When she was 15 or 16 she joined an expedition the would change her life. While on the 1 ½ year long journey she had helped lead and navigate through the wilderness not yet discovered. A quote from an article states, "She guided them and remembered helpful details about topography through the expedition."
To understand sacagawea’s roll in the expedition, when we think about expeditions, especially one that is this long we think of it as this massive journey, of just traveling every day, packing up and moving and going forward and trying to figure out where they were going and how they would get there and what they would eat. Sacagawea played an important role, not as a guide as she’s been mythologized into, but as a person who could read the landscape fairly well. I think she could read rivers. She could read a valley. She had a sense of what the landscape said about direction and where they were going.
The year after his wife’s death in 1820, Clark married Harriet Kennerly Radford, a widow with three children, and fathered two more sons. A generous man, Clark served as legal guardian for Sacagawea’s children, cared for numerous relatives, and offered assistance to religious groups, missionaries, explorers, and travelers. On the other hand, Clark treated his slave York harshly upon their return from the expedition, although he claimed to have eventually freed him. When Lewis and Clark had problems with illnesses or anything like that the blackfoot indians would send their women to their camp to help them.
Sindiwe managed to raise three children on her own while working and going to school, but that would not have been possible without the community coming to her aide when she was in need. • Unwavering hope and optimism
As she fed them so they would gain there energy to continue their journey along the Missouri river. Sacagawea died at the age of 24 not certain for the circumstances of her death. She named a chief of commence tribes died in her Shoshone tribe. Clark invited them to move with them to Missouri in1809, he then enrolled her son in a boarding school she was more than happy. He was to be educated like a white man.
Now don’t get me wrong, Lewis and Clark were very smart men, however Sacagawea knew the land very well that Lewis and Clark would be exploring. In addition to helping Lewis and Clark on their expedition,Sacagawea was also a courageous symbol of peace. She was a single woman with the grit of 10, but she was even-tempered and never wanted to harm a soul. I would have to applaud Sacagawea for her girl/woman power as well. On May 21, 1804, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark started their famous expedition, What many people forget, is a significant Like I said in the beginning,
Clark wanted to educate Jean Baptiste and offered my husband, Charbonneau and I land to farm if we would allow him. In the fall of 1809, we traveled to St. Louis to take Clark up on his offer to educate our son. The farming did not pan out for us and in August of 1811 my husband and I left our son, Jean Baptiste, in Clark’s care to join a fur expedition. In August of 1812, I gave birth to my daughter, Lisette, and became gravely ill.
President Thomas Jefferson commissioned the Corps of Discovery to have the Lewis and Clark expedition find a waterway that could connect the United States for transportation because he had aspirations to expand to the Pacific and Northwest making the expedition important to his agenda for the United States. (The Corp of Discovery, 2016). Another reason for the important expedition was to create a relationship with the American Indians, and the American fur trade, while learning the North American topography and geography of the land which was also important to the exploration (Corps of Discover, 2016). Thomas Jefferson was important to the Lewis and Clark expedition because he organized the journey, sought funding and made Lewis and Clark head
She was approximately 6 feet tall when she died which was on November 26, 1883 in her college home in Battle Creek, Michigan. At the age of 86 She was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C. Her funeral was held two days after she died Sojourner lived the life of a hero because she never gave up and always stood tall no matter what came her way.
Sacajawea gave birth to a baby boy today. She named him Jean Baptiste. The labor was more than 24 dreadful hours. We all heard her screams but there was nothing we could do. We sat around day and night.
Future poet Lucy Terry was born in West Africa. The exact date of her birth is unknown, though it is thought she might have been born as early as the 1720s. Historical records on Lucy’s life are extremely limited and thus details of her history have been taken away from scholarly research and conjecture. Lucy was captured when she was a very young girl by slave traders who brought her to Rhode Island. There she was believed to have been first bought by Samuel Terry, who lived in Enfield, Connecticut.