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Sacajawea: Shoshone Indian
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Sacajawea was a Shoshone Indian princess. The Shoshone lived from the Rocky Mountains to the Plains. They lived primarily on buffalo meat. The Shoshone traveled for many days searching for buffalo. They hunted on horseback using the buffalo for food, clothing, homes, and tools.
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Abrahamson maintains that despite all the hype surrounding the way Sacajawea is pronounced and spelled, the correct version is well known— Sacajawea. In addition, the Abrahamson said that Sacajawea ... means "to carry a burden" instead of "bird woman," as translated by the Hidatsas. She believes this is more accurate because of what she has learned about the Shoshone language.
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Sacajawea and Charbonneau weren't married by any formal ceremony, but they lived together and had children. Many trappers and traders of the frontier considered Indian wives highly desirable, so these types of relationships proliferated.
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One day while Sacajawea and her brother were hunting, the Minnetaree Indians attacked their Shoshone village. They killed Sacajawea's father and captured Sacajawea. Sacajawea went from being a princess to being a slave.
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Today, Abrahamson, now an adult Lemhi Shoshone woman, doesn't have to defend her famous ancestor from ridicule; rather she said she hopes to protect Sacajawea's legacy from being unintentionally misinterpreted by both American Indians and non-Indians. She plans to tackle the misinterpretation with the same skill and effort it took her to become a traditional dance champion in Arlee five-years in a row.
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The model for the painting is the fourth generation niece of Sacajawea. She modeled in an authentic buckskin dress common to the period of the time of her great aunt. The dress was made by her mother who is a speaker and teacher about the language and the ways of her nation, the Lemhi Shoshone.
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