USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Sacagawea was a Shoshone woman who accompanied the Lewis and Clark expedition in 1804-06. Also called the Corps of Discovery, the expedition traveled from the northern plains through the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean and back.

Detailed explanation-2: -c. 1788-c. 1812/1884? 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-3: -Sacagawea. While at Fort Mandan, Lewis and Clark met French-Canadian trapper Toussaint Charbonneau and hired him as an interpreter. They allowed his pregnant Shoshone wife, Sacagawea, to join him on the expedition. Sacagawea had been kidnapped by Hidatsa Indians at age 12 and then sold to Charbonneau.

Detailed explanation-4: -USNS Sacagawea (T-AKE-2) proudly bears the name of Sacagawea, the Shoshone Native American girl who acted as guide and interpreter for Lewis and Clark on their expedition into the Northwest region of the United States. Sacagawea was born in circa 1786.

Detailed explanation-5: -Lewis and Clark talked with her husband, a French beaver trapper named Toussaint Charbonneau, and quickly realized how valuable his wife’s help would be. Sacagawea translated for Lewis and Clark when they met the Shoshone tribes and gave them advice about how to proceed through this land.