Sacajawea

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Sacajawea
By Melissa Ali
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Sacajawea was born in 1790 in Idaho.
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Sacajawea was well known as the Indian women who
led Lewis and Clark to find the Pacific Ocean.
Sacajawea was not officially a member of the
expedition party.
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She was stolen during a raid by a Hidatsa tribe
when she was a young girl and taken to their
village near what is now Bismark, N. Dakota.
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.Some time afterward the French-Canadian trapper
and fur trader, Charbonneau bought Sacajawea and
her companion, Otter Woman, as wives.
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When her husband joined the expedition at Fort
Mandan in the Dakotas, Sacajawea was about 16
years old and pregnant!
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On August 15, 1805 Sacajawea was re-united with
her tribe, only to learn that all her family had
died.
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She died on December 20 ,1812 at age of 25.
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GO SACAJAWEA!