Sacagawea

Sacajawea, also Sacagawea or Sakakawea ( pronunciation: [ ˌ sækədʒəwi ː ə ], the name means " bird woman ", * about 1788 in Lemhi River Vally, Idaho, † December 22, 1812 at Fort Manuel Lisa in present-day Montana ), was an Indian. You made ​​a great contribution to the successful Lewis and Clark Expedition, and thus unconsciously for the subjugation of the Indians by the whites.

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• 3.3 Literature

Life

Sacajawea was the wife of a French-Canadian fur hunter named Toussaint Charbonneau (1758-1843), the road offered himself as an interpreter for the expedition of Lewis and Clark. She was the daughter of a chief of the northern Shoshone Indians, but was kidnapped as a child by the Hidatsa Indians and then sold to Charbonneau.

During the expedition at Fort Mandan (North Dakota) the about 16 -year-old Sacajawea brought on February 11, 1805 their first child into the world, where Meriwether Lewis made ​​obstetrics. They baptized the boy on the name Jean Baptiste, but of the expedition members, he was nicknamed Little Pomp or Pompey.

Sacajawea was a great help as an interpreter and scout for Lewis and Clark. It proved to be in the determination of newly discovered and previously unknown plants and animals to be extremely useful and knowledgeable. More than once she saved the expedition from death, since she could hold a wide variety of Native American tribes from attacking by their presence and by their diplomatic skills. She was also very brave and fearless in contrast to her husband Charbonneau. So Sacajawea threw himself again into the raging waters of the Missouri River to salvage equipment from the river after one of the boats capsized.

During the expedition, participants encountered some Shoshone Indians. It turned out that the chief Camehawait Sacajaweas was brother. Now it was easy to acquire from the Shoshone the necessary pack-horses for the crossing of the Rocky Mountains.

Sacajawea died shortly after the birth of her daughter, Lisette on December 22, 1812 probably of typhus ( putrid fever ) at Fort Manuel Lisa, a trading post of the Missouri Fur Company in what is now Montana. Other sources state that Sacajawea returned to the territory of the Shoshone and died at the age of almost 100 years. Her two children were adopted by William Clark.

Honors

Sacajawea is depicted on the gold colored one dollar coin which has been published since 2000.

After Sacajawea are named:

Mountains

• Four mountains named Sacagawea Peak in the U.S. states of Montana, Idaho, Wyoming and Oregon

Flow

• Sacagawea River, a tributary of the river system of the Missouri River in northern Montana

Lakes

• Lake Sakakawea, a reservoir at the mouth of the Yellowstone River in the Missouri River in North Dakota
• Lake Sacajawea (Missouri ), a reservoir in Washington County, in the U.S. state of Missouri
• Lake Sacajawea ( Lake, Washington), a lake in Cowlitz County, in the State of Washington
• Lake Sacajawea ( Reservoir, Washington), a reservoir in Walla Walla County, in the State of Washington

Ships

Three ships of the U.S. Navy

• USS Sacagawea (YT- 241) (United States Ship - Tug Boat )
• USS Sacagawea (YT- 326) (United States Ship - Tug Boat )
• USNS Sacagawea (T- AKE -2 ), ( United States Naval Ship - supply cargo ship )

More

• In Salmon, Idaho, a public park that is dedicated to Sacajawea is
• Sacagawea Patera, one of the largest volcanic crater on the planet Venus
• The asteroid ( 2822 ) Sacajawea

Mention in the media

Music

• The song Black Man in Stevie Wonder's album Songs in the Key of Life refers to Sacajewea.

Film

• Night at the Museum ( Sacajawea played by Mizuo Peck): In this film Sacajawea plays an important role; is there a dissertation topic, is honored as the "first working mom " and adored by Theodore Roosevelt. Lewis and Clark on the other hand have only silent roles.
• Night at the Museum 2 ( continued)