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[T]hese tales of Sacajawea are just that, tales. The true story behind Sacajawea is that her husband was part of the Lewis and Clark expedition and took her along. Sacajawea was born in 1790 in the Shoshone tribe. When she was a young girl she was taken from her family during a raid by the Hidatsa tribe and brought back to their village. Some time had passed when a trapper and fur trader came upon the village and bought Sacajawea from the tribe. He took Sacajawea in as his wife, and at the age of sixteen they joined the expedition, Sacajawea being pregnant at the time.
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As a young girl, Sacajawea was alone with some other women and children from her tribe when they were attacked by a war party from an enemy tribe, the Hidatsa. Sacajawea tried to flee into a nearby stream, but was captured. Sacajawea lived essentially as a slave under the Hidatsas, although she probably did not receive excessively harsh treatment. Then, when she was twelve years old, sometime around the turn of the century (1800), a French-Canadian fur- trader and trapper named Toussaint Charbonneau got possession of her. Charbonneau either traded for her or won her in a game of cards. Charbonneau made the young Sacajawea his wife, although he already had another wife, a Mandan woman named Otter Woman.
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Sacajawea, an “Agaidika” Shoshone woman born around 1788, is known around the world as a trusted and valuable member of the famed Lewis and Clark Corps of Discovery. A lesser-known fact... is her historical tie to Idaho’s Lemhi Valley where she was born and raised until the age of twelve. Captured by the Arikira Indians and forced to live among them in the Mandan Villages of North Dakota, Sacajawea would not see her home again until becoming part of the Corps of Discovery in 1805. It was during this expedition that she would help Lewis and Clark find the Salmon River and revisit her people.
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Lewis and Clark first met Sacajawea in November, 1804 when making winter camp with the Mandan Indians in North Dakota. She was married to the French-Canadian fur trapper and interpreter Toussaint Charbonneau, who would be the expedition's interpreter. Charbonneau didn't have a good reputation, but they took a chance on him because of the possible usefulness of Sacajawea. Lewis and Clark thought they would be in a position of needing to purchase horses from the Shoshone and thought Sacajawea might help them in the bargain.
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Sacajawea was pregnant with her first child when the Corps of Discovery arrived near the Hidatsa villages to spend the winter of 1804-1805. Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark hired Charbonneau as an interpreter when they discovered that his wife spoke the Shoshone language, as they knew they would need the help of the Shoshone tribes at the headwaters of the Missouri. Lewis himself assisted with the birth of Sacajawea's baby, who was named Jean Baptiste Charbonneau.
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Sacajawea was born in what is now the state of Idaho, around 1790. She was born into the Shoshone tribe; ... when Sacajawea was about 10 years old, she was captured by the Hidatsa tribe, which lived near the present-day area of Washburn, North Dakota. She was reared by the Hidatsa until she and another Shoshone woman were sold to the French-Canadian trapper, Toussaint Charbonneau.
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