Sacagawea

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In 2000, the United States Mint issued the Sacagawea dollar coin in her honor, featuring Sacagawea and her son. The face on the coin was modeled on a modern Shoshone-Bannock woman named Randy'L He-dow Teton, only because no photo of Sacagawea exists. Sacagawea means Bird Girl in her language. She was 16 and a pregnant woman, her husband was also her owner. They named their baby boy Pompy Sacagawea was the daughter of a Shoshone chief and was born around 1788. When she was about 12 or 13, the Shoshones were attacked by the Hidatsa Indians and Sacajawea was captured and sold to a French-Canadian trapper who made her one of his wives. William Clark liked her son and nicknamed him "Pomp" or "Pompey" which means first born. When her son was about five, he was put under Clark's care to be raised and educated. Sometime after Sacagawea's death, Clark also got custody of her daughter, Lissette. He raised both of the children.
 * S**acagawea 1788 – December 20, 1812. She was a Shoshone woman, who was on the Lewis and Clark Expedition, acting as an interpreter and guide, in their exploration of the Western United States. She traveled thousands of miles from North Dakota to the Pacific Ocean in the years1804-1806. Clark nicknamed her Janey because he could not prounce her name.

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Warren Seymour, Flora. //Warren Seymour, Flora//. Sacagawea : American pathfinder. New York: 1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed, 1991. Print.
 * Sacagawea : American pathfinder ||
 * Author: || Flora Warren Seymour ||
 * Summary: || It shows all of the inportant events in Sacagwea's life, and also some of the things the author thought might of happened. ||
 * Opinion: || I think it is important to our history. ||

Sacagawea born in a Agaidiku tribe of the Lemhi Shoshone, current day Idaho, as daughter to a chief.
 * **Somewhere about 1800**- Sacagawea was captured and taken by the Hidatsa Indians during a battle.
 * **Somewhere about 1801**- Was sold as a slave to Toussaint Charbonneau, a French Canadian trapper, who later takes her for a wife.
 * **November 4,**1804 - Lewis and Clark expedition encounters Hidatsas tribe. Sacagawea's husband is hired as an interpreter. Sacagawea was considered as a helpful hand and an interpreter of the Shoshone language.
 * **February 11, 1805**- Sacagawea gives birth to her first child, Jean Baptiste.
 * **June 11-17, 1805**- Sacagawea becomes extremely ill with a fever. Clark helps saving her life.
 * **August 8, 1805**- Sacagawea recognizes Beaverhead Rock and the headwaters of the Missouri river the home of her tribe, the Shoshones.
 * **August 17, 1805**- Discovery of a Shoshone tribe. Lewis and Clark negotiate with the tribe for the horses. Sacagawea discovers that Shoshone chief Cameahwait is her long lost brother. The meeting place was named Camp Fortunate by the expedition.
 * **August 31, 1805**- Shoshone guide sets wit her expedition, along with 29 horses and a mule.
 * **September 9, 1805**- Travelers Rest, a place where Lewis and Clark prepared the expedition for the mountain crossing.
 * **September 22, 1805**- The expedition crosses the mountains after nearly starving to death.
 * **October 16, 1805**- Lewis and Clark reach the Columbia River.
 * **October 18, 1805**- Clark spots Mt. Hood. That serves as a proof that they on the right path to the Pacific Ocean.
 * **November 7, 1805**- Clark sees the ocean in the distance. With excitement he writes his famous words in his journal entry: "Ocian in view! O! the joy."
 * **November 24, 1805**- Sacagawea suggest the crossing path to the south side of the Columbia River. Expedition makes their winter camp after crossing it.
 * **March 23, 1806**- Expedition leaves Fort Clatsop, and the expedition begins their journey home.
 * **July 25, 1806**- Sandstone outcropping was named Pompy's Tower, after Sacagawea's son, nicknamed Little Pomp. Clark inscribes his name and the date.
 * **August 14, 1806**- The expedition returns to the Mandan village. Charbonneau, Sacagawea, and Jean Baptist decide to stay, parting ways with the Corps of Discovery.
 * **December 20, 1812**- Sacagawea dies probably at age of 25 at Fort Manuel Lisa due to complications of a putrid fever. William Clark, assumes custody of Jean Baptiste, as well as her daughter, Lisette.
 * **April 9, 1884** - According to native legend, she crossed the Great Plains and married into a Comanche tribe, then had returned to the Shoshone in Wyoming where she died.