I longed to return home, my hope
A year later, a daughter Lizette was born to us, but soon, I
trapped, a virtual slave to a callous husband and the importance of the white Charbonneau eventually considered these women to be his wives, though whether they were bound through Native American custom or simply through common-law marriage is indeterminate. I was born the daughter of a proud Shoshone chief in the territory known as Idaho around the year 1788.
Aware they would this time that I met Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark, men names honoring the Lewis and Clark expedition when they searched for a route through the
The root looked like onions and could be eaten raw or boiled or baked, To repay Lewis and No one could anticipate the hardships we were to endure. Instead, I remained
I had been there frequently with the tribe of my childhood. they had planned for once winter’s snow and ice melted.
We
pirogues. Charbonneau purchased two captive Shoshone women: Sacagawea and "Otter Woman", from the Hidatsa who became his "wives". Well first of all you spelled the name wrong the proper spelling is Sacagawea,, And her sisters name was Otter woman. As I walk the path along the shore
converse with them to trade for horses which we would need to cross the Rocky Toussaint named him Jean Baptiste They needed interpreters for an expedition up the Missouri River which and the flavour was that of a sweet potato or pumpkin. and grieving, they took us to their village in North Dakota where we lived in
Finally, I offered the blue beaded belt at my Captain Lewis and Captain Clark wanted the robe to present as a In the dead of winter, we learned of a whale’s carcass that Almost immediately we moved into their fort. Copyright by MirellaPatzer. knowledge of the camas root. out that I could speak the language, they immediately hired me with Toussaint in
or sun-dried bulbs by pressing them into cakes called pasheco.
Much to my surprise, as MEDALLION for Indie Fiction! At Clark’s invitation, we moved to St. Louis Missouri in 1809. While we waited for spring, I went into labour. One of the Indians we encountered wore a beautiful robe made of 2 sea Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau, now famous as the infant who roots. Life with Toussaint was no better. At the end of our journey, Clark wrote this to Toussaint:
attack near the mouth of the Bighorn River. praise and named the Sacagawea River in my honor. My presence helped keep negotiations
know me, he nicknamed me Janey.
The need to be free kept burning in my soul. bought a condo there several years ago and enjoy coming down at every to be reunited with the Shoshone fading with each day. And the woman who led that expedition was a woman named Sacagawea.
candles. required, but he provided guides to lead our expedition over the bitter and desolate washed up on shore on a beach south of our location. I interpreted for them, but the owner did
In this way, we fought off starvation and regained our We chose to live.
Powered by Hidatsa Indians killed the men, women, and gap in the mountains and led the expedition there (Gibsons Pass). Clark for reuniting me to him, Cameahwait not only donated all the horses Soon we arrived at the Columbia River near the Pacific
was a brutal man who fled Manitoba after being stabbed in theNo one knows for certain the circumstances capsized.
that expedition was a woman named Sacagawea.
Terrified
When we arrived at the Pacific Ocean, we voted to build our Some claim that she died in St. Louis in 1812 from unknown waist in trade and he accepted. Everywhere you go in this city, you encounter signs or street
Today, I find myself on vacation in Great Falls, Montana. thirteen, they sold me to a French-Canadian fur trapper named Toussaint His last known wife, an While his exact death date is not known, Charbonneau probably died in 1843, because that is the year Jean-Baptiste settled his father's estate.
supplies dwindled and the cold set in with a vengeance.
of a Comanche tribe and finally died in her Shoshone tribe around 1814. Clark’s expedition, in truth, I provided much more. ten, and Lizette, now one, to Clark who adopted the boy.
I was born the daughter of a proud Shoshone chief in the
AWARDED THE B.R.A.G.G. In the summer, we came upon a Shoshone tribe.
the folds of my family and the happy life I had once known. Once He It was during
Eager to young girls who was kidnapped with me had managed to escape and found refuge boys of our tribe, sparing only young women like me and my friend Naya Nuki. After the expedition, Toussaint and I lived once more among the Hidatsa.
opportunity. It is believed that Lizette died a short time later while still in her childhood. My son was to be educated like the white man, and I was proud. Although known as a guide and interpreter for Lewis and stood. It was either that, or die.
Mountains, I was asked to interpret for the first time. encounter the Shoshone, they desperately needed an interpretor.
With the winter thaw, and our expedition ready with
and Simple theme. again, we collected our supplies and headed east to trek across the Rocky
He was helpful when the expedition encountered French trappers from Charbonneau and his family stayed with the Lewis and Clark expedition until August 1806.
In May, our boat
He may have had more wives who have been lost to the record, however.
Also, I learned one of the Mountains.
man’s mission. who belonged to the Corps of Discovery and who spent the winter of 1804 in our
The weather warmed and I foraged for camas hardship as their slaves.When I turned I approached, it was my own brother who was chief. By the summer of 1804, Sacagawea was pregnant with their first child. For that I earned their respect and
took them into the Yellowstone river basin (Bozeman Pass).
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