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." (McCoy 3). Through the beginning of her time on the Corps of Discovery, it is stated she was heavily pregnant. " On February 11, 1805, while at Fort Mandan, Sacagawea gave birth to a son. His name was Jean Baptiste (Pompey)." "Sacagawea not only survived but also cared for Pompey." Those
Sacagawea By: Kaiya Wilks Introducing a girl who is brave, a great leader and lead Lewis and Clark to the Pacific Ocean with a baby on her back. She was able to find berries,wild herbs,white apples, prairie turnips, wild licorice, and wild artichokes which made her a highly skilled gatherer for food. On her journey she went through sickness, wild rivers,
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.
“Sacagawea and her husband Charbonneau lived with the Hidatsa and Mandan Indians in the Missouri River area Where North Dakota is now. 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 come them on their mission. Even with her traveling with Jean Baptiste during the expedition Sacagawea proved to be helpful. She was skilled at finding edible plants.
Then when she was 12 years old she was kidnapped by a group of Hidatsa Indians. The group of Hidatsa indians were her tribes enemy. Then she was traded or gambled off by a French Candadian fur trapper named Toussaint Charlameaic . After that Sacagewea then became pregnant with her first child Jean Bapitiste and his nickname was Little Pomp at age 16 . Then in 1804 she was invited to the Lewis and Clark expedition to be the navigator and interpreter.
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
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.
She was captured when she was young on a hunting trip and raised by the Hudatsa. Sacagawea played an extremely important role in helping Lewis and Clark translate, navigate, and survive. She knew the layout, the foods, the animals, and the language of the land. Sacagawea quickly became Lewis and Clarks most useful source on their expedition though the Louisiana territory. Along their expedition, Lewis and Clark run into hunters of the Shoshone tribe and think they are going to get killed where they stand, but it just so happens one of the hunters is Sacagawea’s brother.
Sacagawea Stephanie Krakowski US History 1 Honors Mrs. Farris October 22, 2014 Sacagawea was one of the most important people to make the expedition of Lewis and Clark a success. She is the most well-known person for the expedition of Lewis and Clark. Despite Sacagawea facing difficult problems before joining the journey, she immediately proved to play a vital part to help the members of the Corps of Discovery along the journey.
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.
“Amazing the things you will find when you bother to search for them. ”-Sacagawea. Nowadays, when we think famous people we think of Kim Kardashian, Justin Bieber and Lebron James, but what about the famous celebrities who made history? When I got the chance to research a famous deceased individual, I choose Sacagawea. Sacagawea was a very important person in the history of America, in fact without her help Lewis and Clark might have ended up lost on their famous expedition in 1804.
By writing it down and sharing it with a large audience, she was able to transmit her stories and the events that happened in those years, as well as her own personal status to create herself an identity and to define her state of
Cleopatra was in it for the fame and glory, as well as for the power that came along with it. This made her a fierce and respected leader of her time. About a millenia and a half years later came another of the world 's most famous female leaders. Although she was more a teenager than a woman, Jeanne D’Arc, known as Joan of Arc, was one of the most legendary female figures ever. Joan barely even had a childhood.
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.