Sacagawea
Sacagawea was an adventurous and courageous woman. During her life she traveled with Lewis and Clark. She will be remembered for being and interpreter on the expedition to find the Northwest Passage to the Pacific Ocean.
Sacagawea was born in 1790, in a Shoshone Indian village in what is now Montana. Her father was the Indian chief. The Shoshones were known as the Snake Nation and settled around the Rocky Mountains. They were very good horsemen, buffalo hunters, and fearless warriors. Their enemies were the Blackfeet, Atsinas and the Hidatsas. The Shoshone had luscious plains in a little valley. The family lived in a tepee.
The only known sibling of Sacagawea was her brother, Cameahwait, who later became the chief of the tribe. She had a very special relationship with him. Later, he helped the expedition by the supplying them with horses they badly needed to cross the Rocky Mountains.
When Sacagawea was eleven years old she was taken into captivity by the Hidatsas......

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