USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Sacagawea was a Shoshone woman who, as interpreter, traveled thousands of wilderness miles with the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804–1806), from the Mandan-Hidatsa villages in the Dakotas to the Pacific Northwest.

Detailed explanation-2: -Sacagawea was either 16 or 17 years old when she joined the Corps of Discovery. She met Lewis and Clark while she was living among the Mandan and Hidatsa in North Dakota, though she was a Lemhi Shoshone from Idaho.

Detailed explanation-3: -Sacagawea was an interpreter and guide for Meriwether Lewis and William Clark’s expedition westward from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Coast.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Shoshone tribe helped Lewis and Clark by providing them with horses. The expedition needed to use horses to get over the peaks of the Rocky Mountains. Lewis and Clark promised to return to trade with the Shoshone and to provide them with guns so that they could protect themselves from rival tribes who were armed.

Detailed explanation-5: -He called the proposed mission the Voyage of Discovery and began assembling a team of explorers called the Corps (KOR) of Discovery. The president chose Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark to lead the expedition.