Sacagawea Research Paper

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The greatest explorers of the west Lewis and Clark, but they did not go alone to explore the west they had a marvelous woman to help them in their journey. Sacagawea earned the respect of Lewis and Clark because she proved herself in many trials during the expedition. At the age of twelve Sacagawea was captured by a neighboring tribe and they made her a slave for that tribe. Sacagawea would then be won by her husband in a poker game, which would lead her to the meeting of Lewis and Clark. During the expedition Sacagawea would also care for her newborn child (Hoose 130-132). Sacagawea is a legendary women still to this day for people and has memorials dedicated in her honor for the Lewis and Clark expedition. Sacagawea's life as a guide …show more content…

The tribe Sacagawea lived in as a child was the Shoshone tribe. She was born in 1788, and her father was chief of the tribe Shoshone. The Shoshone tribe was a nomadic tribe and that the tribe Sacagawea came from was not the only Shoshone tribe. The Shoshone tribe Sacagawea spent her adolescent years in was stationed in the Rocky mountains of Idaho (“Shoshone Tribe Facts”). Amidst to being from that tribe she learned how to dig and gather things that could be used as a medicine.Sacagawea would learn how to gather the food like, roots, planets, and berries that could be used for medicine (“Sacagawea”). Sacagawea life before being captured, she learned how to survive with the resources around …show more content…

Since the exploration was through the Rocky Mountains of Idaho and is also where Sacagawea’s tribe was before the attack. On August 17, 1805 Sacagawea would be reunited with her older brother, Cameahwait, chief of the Shoshone tribe. Sacagawea would then ask her brother for Horses, which with receiving the horses they would travel further north making it between Washington and Oregon to the Pacific ocean. After Lewis and Clark would give Charbonneau 320 acres of land in North Dakota and $500.33

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