Sacagawea

A statue of Sacagawea (http://montanakids.com/history_and_prehistory/lewis_and_clark/Images/sacaja3.jpg ())

Sacagawea was born in the year 1788 and lived to the age of 24, dying on December 20, 1812. Sacagawea was born into the Shoshone tribe, in what is now Salmon, Idaho, and lived there to about the age of eleven. At around that age Sacagawea was taken from her home by a Hidatsa raiding party. The Hidatsa took her to their camp near the border of North Dakota. Sacagawea lived with the Hidatsa until she was given to the French fur trader, Toussaint Charbonneau, as a wife at the age of thirteen. A few years later Sacagawea became pregnant with his child that would eventually become known as Jean Baptiste, and as the youngest explorer ever in history. 
 

In 1804, at Fort Mandan in North Dakota, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark hired a pregnant Sacagawea as a their translator and her husband as her interpreter. Sacagawea, being born in Shoshone tribe and living in Hidatsa territory for some of her life, made her the ideal translator and navigator for the Corps of Discovery. Her knowledge of the land and language greatly helped on the expedition. Not only did she help with the language barrier, but she and her child, that she gave birth to during the expedition, served as a sign of peace to potentially hostile groups. Sacagawea did not just help Corps of Discovery with language, land, and peacemaking, but she also helped the expedition group find food to help them survive. Sacagawea's many skills greatly helped Lewis and Clark on their famous expedition, without her; the journey might not have been the same.

Sacagawea showed many traits that made her a hero. She had many skills that made her a hero. Her knowledge of the land and and many languages was one of the traits that made her a hero. Sacagawea's kindness is also what made her a hero. Sacagawea inspired and still does inspire many people. Despite her young age of about fifteen years old, she was able to make a big change in history. Sacagawea inspires me to want to help others the way she helped an entire country. With her language and navigation skills she helped greatly on the Lewis and Clark expedition. I want to be able to help people like how Sacagawea helped many others.

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Sacagawea was a famous peacemaker that made a big impact on our history. She was a native American woman that helped greatly on the Lewis and Clark expedition. Her language and navigation skills contributed greatly to the success of the the expedition. She helped not only with the language barrier, navigation of the land, and finding food, but she also served as a peacemaker to the corps of discovery. Sacagawea is a hero because she helped so many people in so many ways.