USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -When he was hired as a guide for Lewis and Clark’s expedition in 1804, Sacagawea also joined as an interpreter to talk to Native-American people on their 8, 000-mile journey. Sacagawea soon became a respected member of the group. She was skilled at finding plants for food and medicine to help keep the explorers alive.

Detailed explanation-2: -In the custom of most Indian nations, she was adopted into the tribe of her captors and learned their language. Charbonneau offered that Sacagawea would go along to interpret in her native language through their common use of Hidatsa, as part of the contract hiring him.

Detailed explanation-3: -Sacagawea is best known for her association with the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804–06). A Shoshone woman, she accompanied the expedition as an interpreter and traveled with them for thousands of miles from St Louis, Missouri, to the Pacific Northwest.

Detailed explanation-4: -Sacagawea belonged to the Shoshone tribe. In 1800, when she was 12 years old, Hidatsa warriors raided her tribe and captured many young people, including Sacagawea.