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Bookmark or Share- Sacagawea - WikipediaSacagawea is the most widely used spelling of her name, usually pronounced with a hard "g" sound ( / səˌkɑːɡəˈwiːə / ), occasionally with a soft "g" or "j" sound ( / ˌsækədʒəˈwiːə / ). Lewis and Clark's original journals mention Sacagawea by name seventeen times, spelled eight different ways, all with a "g".
- Sacagawea | Biography, Husband, Baby, Death, & FactsOn February 11, 1805, she gave birth to a son, Jean Baptiste. Sacagawea. Sacagawea and her son, Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, statue by Leonard Crunelle; at the North Dakota State Capitol grounds, Bismarck. (more) Departing on April 7, the expedition ascended the Missouri. On May 14, Charbonneau nearly capsized the white pirogue (boat) in which ...
- Sacagawea | National Women's History MuseumSacagawea was an interpreter and guide for Meriwether Lewis and William Clark’s expedition westward from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Coast. Though spelled numerous ways in the journals of expedition members, Sacagawea is generally believed to be a Hidatsa name (Sacaga means “bird” and wea means “woman”).
- Sacagawea: Facts, Tribe & Death - HISTORYSacagawea was a Shoshone Indian woman who accompanied the Lewis and Clark expedition in 1804-06, exploring the lands procured in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803.
- Sacagawea - U.S. National Park ServiceSacagawea was either 16 or 17 years old when she joined the Corps of Discovery. She met Lewis and Clark while she was living among the Mandan and Hidatsa in North Dakota, though she was a Lemhi Shoshone from Idaho. She had been taken during a raid by the Hidatsa when she was either 11 or 12, and had lived at the Awatixa (Sakakawea) Village.
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