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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;pog, post: 8400, member: 782&quot;]not just a guide.</p><p><br /></p><p>Her name derives from two Hidatsa Indian words: &quot;sacaga&quot;, meaning bird, </p><p>and &quot;wea&quot;, meaning woman. It is pronounced Sä-cä´gä-we-ä, with a hard &quot;g&quot;. </p><p>Clark would later explain that in taking Indian vocabularies great object was </p><p>to make every letter sound.&quot;... </p><p><br /></p><p>In 1804 the Lewis and Clark Expedition arrived among the Mandan Indians </p><p>of North Dakota. They hired the French fur trapper Toussaint Charbonneau and </p><p>his Indian wife, Sacagawea, to guide them to the West coast. </p><p>In the Northwest, Sacagawea has become a legend. Memorials have been raised </p><p>in her honor, in part for the fortitude with which she faced hardship and deprivation </p><p>on the arduous journey. </p><p><br /></p><p>Sacagawea was born in about 1786, probably near present-day Lehmi, Idaho. </p><p>She was a member of the Snake tribe of the Shoshone Indians. </p><p>In 1800 she was captured by a party of Hidatsa Indians. </p><p><br /></p><p>The Hidatsa Indians in turn sold her to Charbonneau. </p><p>Lewis and Clark met the couple near present-day Bismarck, N.D. </p><p>The explorers were especially eager to have Sacagawea along to help them make contact with the Shoshone, whose chief was her brother Cameahwait. </p><p><br /></p><p>On Feb. 11, 1805, she gave birth to a baby boy, Jean Baptiste, nicknamed Pomp </p><p>by Captain Clark, who was taken along when the expedition set out on April 7. Sacagawea and her husband went with the expedition to the coast, and on the </p><p>return trip they remained in North Dakota. It is possible that they later traveled to </p><p>St. Louis, Mo., to leave their son with Clark to be educated. </p><p><br /></p><p>Sacagawea is believed to have died on Dec. 12, 1812, at Fort Manuel on the </p><p>Missouri River in Dakota Territory. If so, her grave is located near Lander, Wyo. </p><p>In 1875, however, an Indian woman claiming to be Sacagawea was living among </p><p>the Wind River Shoshone in Wyoming. This woman died in 1884.</p><p><br /></p><p>she lived and died. where would we be if wasnt for lewis and clark. heck we have a nickel now that is all about them...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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