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Sacagawea was born
Sacagawea was born in Lemhi County, Idaho around sometime in 1788. There is no exact date of her birth. The spelling of her name is sometimes 'Sacajawea' or even 'Sakakawea'. -
Sacagawea was captured by an enemy tribe and then sold to a French-Canadian trapper who married her.
Sacagawea was captured and sold to a trapper and the married him. His name was Toussaint Charbonneau. She was only 12 years old when she was captured and around 14 when she was married. He was 21 years older than her at the time. There is no exact date of the marriage but it was around 1800. Within a year of their marriage their son was born. -
Sacagawea began her expedition with Lewis and Clark.
Sacagawea joined Lewis and Clark on their journey. They originaly wanted her husband but she spoke a language they needed to be interperated. Her husband also joined them. They needed to know the language wso they could get horses from a local tribe. -
Sacagawea gave birth to her son, Jean Baptiste Charbonnea.
Sacagawea gave birth to her son while she was helping Lewis and Clark with their expedtition. She nicknamed him 'Pompy'.
54 days after he was born, he was strapped to her back and came along on their journey. She thought she was going to have a baby girl and found out it was a boy the day of his birth. -
Sacagawea ran into her tribe people while on the expedition with Lewis and Clark.
They were on the expedition and Sacagawea began jumping with joy and started to suck her finger which meant they were her people. -
Sacagawea saves things on a sinking boat.
Sacagawea reaches and nearly grabs everything while their ship is sinking. -
Sacagawea reunites with her brother after 5 years.
She finally meets her brother after 5 years of not seeing him. It was a emotional reunion. -
Sacagawea's expedition ended in success.
The expedition ended. -
Sacagawea's journey with Lewis and Clark ended in 1806.
The journey was very hard but was well worth it. -
Sacagawea died.
She was believed to have died shortly after the birth of her second child.
