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Sacajawea: Touissant Charbonneau
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Sacajawea (Sacagawea/Sakakawea/Sacajewea), which translates in Hidatsa to "Bird Woman," was born to the Shoshone Tribe in Idaho. Kidnapped at the age of 12 by the Hidatsa Tribe, a rival Native American group, she was then sold into slavery and forced to marry the French Canadian fur trapper Toussaint Charbonneau, who ... claimed one other Shoshone woman as his "wife."
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According to traditional accounts, Sacajawea died in 1812 of a fever at Fort Manuel in South Dakota. The evidence that she died then is not perfect... and some historians claim that she actually left Charbonneau and returned to live with the Shoshoni, dying only in 1884.
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Captain Lewis referred to Touissant Charbonneau, Sacajawea's husband, as a man of no particular merit. Charbonneau admitted years later that he never understood Hidatsa, and how much Hidatsa could Sacajawea have learned as a slave in a Hidatsa Village. A good account of the value of Charbonneau to the Expedition is given in
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Little is actually known about Sacajawea. She was about seventeen years old when she joined the expedition. She was a Shoshoni from the Lemhi Valley of Idaho, who had been kidnapped (with another Shoshoni girl) by members of another tribe four years earlier. Charbonneau had won the two girls in a bet with the Indians who kidnapped her, and he took them as wives.
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