Sacagawea

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Primary Sources: 

 

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"The sight of this Indian woman, wife to one of our interprs. confirmed those people of our friendly intentions, as no woman ever accompanies a war party of Indians in this quarter..." -Louis

 

"I offered to take the little son a butifull promising child who is 19 months old to which they both himself & wife were willing provided the child had been weened. They observed that in one year the boy would be sufficiently old to leave his mother & he would then take him to me if I would be so friendly as to raise the child ... to which I agreed". - Clark

 

"She observed that she had traveled a long way with us to see the great waters, and that now that monstrous fish was also to be seen." - Louis

 

"Everything I do is for my people." - Sacagawea

 

"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living." - Sacagawea

 

“We had on board a Frenchman named Charbonet, with his wife, an Indian woman of the Snake nation, both of whom had accompanied Lewis and Clark to the Pacific, and were of great service. The woman, a good creature, of a mild and gentle disposition, greatly attached to the whites, whose manners and dress she tries to imitate, but she had become sickly, and longed to revisit her native country; her husband, also, who had spent many years amongst the Indians, was become weary of civilized life.” —Excerpt from Henry M. Brackenridge, Views of Louisiana, 1814

 

Sunday the 20th. “This Evening the Wife of Charbonneau, a Snake Squaw, died of a putrid fever. she was a good [sic] and the best Woman in the fort, aged abt. 25 years she left a fine infant girl.” —Excerpt from the journal of John Luttig, 1812 (Her death) 

 

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The year eighteen hundred nine the twenty-eighth of December, I brother Urbain Guillet Reu of the Trappist monastery of Our Lady of Good Help near Cahokia, in the Illinois Territory, baptized a child born the eleventh of February in the year eighteen hundred four of Toussaint Charboneau, living in this parish and of ____________________ savage of the Snake Nation. The godfather was Auguste Chouteau* and the godmother Ulalie Chouteau both of this parish. [*August Chouteau was a prominent merchant and the head of St Louis’s most prominent family at that time. Eulalie Chouteau was his daughter.] —Baptismal record of Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, son of Sacagawea, 1809 St. Louis Cathedral

 

Book Sources: 

"…Translated, her name means "Bird Woman," and in their attempts to spell the Indians words, Lewis and Clark used variations of "Sah-ca-gah-we-ah" and "Sah-kah-gar-we-a." (In 1814, when a version of the journals appeared, an editor changed the spelling to Sacajawea, which was the preferred spelling until recently, when most historians and official publications reverted back to Sacagawea.)" (Source: "Lewis and Clark. The Journey of the Corps of Discovery. An Illustrated History," by Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. Page 92.) Additional references to the Sacagawea spelling can be found in Stephen E. Ambrose's "Undaunted Courage" (Simon & Schuster, 1996).