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The little-known story of Sacagawea, the Native American woman who helped Lewis and Clark map America

When Sacagawea's husband Toussaint Charbonneau joined the Lewis and Clark expedition as an interpreter, she was six months pregnant with their first child. Less than two months after Jean Baptiste ...
PBS

Sacagawea Gives Birth (Journals of Lewis and Clark)

Lewis and Clark Journal Entries February 11, 1805. This one-minute video segment from IdahoPTV's "Moments in Time" presents Captain Meriwether Lewis’ journal entry from February 11, 1805, the evening ...
Quad-City Times

Sacagawea: Scared girl turns heroine

That winter, as the members of the expedition camped at Fort Mandan, the 15-year-old Sacagawea gave birth, with Capt. Meriwether Lewis as her doctor. " (T)his was the first child which this woman had ...
The Times Herald

Women’s History Month: Sacagawea was a valued interpreter on expedition

In 1800, when she was about 12 years old, Sacagawea was kidnapped by a war party of Hidatsa Indians – enemies of her people, the Shoshones. She was taken from her Rocky Mountain homeland, located in ...
Missoulian

MONTANA HISTORY ALMANAC: Sacajawea gives birth at Fort Mandan stop

René Jesseaume, a French-Canadian trader, broke two rattlesnake buttons into small pieces, mixed them with water and gave them to a young Indian woman to drink at Fort Mandan. As darkness closed in on ...