The Untold Story Of Sacagawea

Sacagawea was one tough lady. When she was a teenage mom, this Shoshone explorer tied her baby to her back and fearlessly travelled westward across America as part of Lewis and Clark’s famous expedition. For most people, that’s pretty much the beginning and end of Sacagawea’s story-but they’d be wrong. From her perilous childhood to her nightmare of a marriage, there’s so much more to know about this Indigenous icon.
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[@hannahward4703]

Not crying doesn’t indicate how strong one has become, it indicates how wounded and in need of healing one is. Dissociation, derealization, depersonalization, desensitization, and compartmenting to that degree are All trauma symptoms

[@redefiningmyself8598]

Exactly

[@khismet]

Absolutely.

[@susanyoung1600]

Amen. I hear that.

[@wendybryan6071]

You just had to make it about psychology. I'm joking. You're absolutely right. Calling her courageous invalidates her traumas

[@DelphineDenton]

It's both. The idea that the bravest people don't suffer from these things and it doesn't have anything to do with how they're able to do what other people cannot is dubious at best.

[@marley.hendrix]

Im a Death Valley Shoshone. Our women are known for our tenacity and bravery. I am so proud to be in the same clan as Sacajawea.

[@NanaAmySpectreSeeker1111]

I did a past life session once, to see why I loved Indigenous art and powwows so much, I was shown an Indigenous lifetime, the Tribal name I heard was Shoshone ♥️ and I'm stubborn as they come when trying to accomplish something. A'HO!

[@electraheart7745]

@@NanaAmySpectreSeeker1111oh sis that’s not it.

[@NanaAmySpectreSeeker1111]

@@electraheart7745 ok you know best.

[@xosmokey]

@@NanaAmySpectreSeeker1111 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@calisongbird]

@@NanaAmySpectreSeeker1111😂😂😂😂😂 give me a break

[@stekoo664]

I was an airline captain flying domestic routes in the 90s. Whenever we flew over the Missouri River I gave a brief talk about Lewis, Clark & Sacagawea. I was honored once when a VP of Disney gave me his business card where he had written, "Best travel dialogue ever." Thank you for this Sacagawea recap.

[@sj6919]

How wonderful of you to take time to do this.

[@jameskennedy6982]

As a native Montanan, retired FBI Agent, 72 year old; I've had the opportunity to interact with various Native Peoples. By and large, they are fine, strong peoples, whose culture and way of existence was destroyed by the westward intrusion of whites. Sacagawea is a beautiful example of the strength demonstrated by indigenous peoples. May we live in peace with all people.

[@MonaeMalome-dq6ru]

​@jameskennedy6982 ❤ MY LIFE HAS BEEN MARED BY THE STRENGTH AND CHARACTER OF A NATIVE SON..AMERICA'S GREATEST NATIVE CHARACTER..A LOST TRIBE PLAQUED BY LOVE, VIOLENCE, KIDNAPPING AND MURDER..NO ONE CAN EVER UNDERSTAND WHY MY HEART STILL BLEEDS DAILY..JUST FOR THE CRUELTY OF LIFE TO SHOW ME WHAT I ALREADY KNEW..MUCH LOVE TO THE BEAUTIFUL SOULS WHO TELL THESE STORIES..OF A STRENGTH AND CHARACTER OF TRIBES OF PEOPLE DESTROYED FOR LAND AND MONEY..FOR OTHERS TO COME TO THIS COUNTRY TO STEAL, BELITTLE ,SHAME AND DESTROY A COUNTRY THAT BELONG TO A PEOPLE AT THE LOWEST PLACE IN SOCIETY..TODAY JESUS CHRIST IS HEALING MY MIND AND HEART..OUR LIVES WERE DESTROYED BECAUSE WE BOTH FELL IN LOVE AND LOST OUR SON..My fight is over..but I know where ever he is Jehovah God promises vengeance belongs to him..a native culture and languages lost..for the most evil people on this planet..who complained about not having their own identities, yet was willing to destroy others..please pray for my mind and heart❤ thank you Jesus Christ for this season of resting in my life..for 58years of my life senselessness no one else can comprehend..My heartaches I surrender to Jesus Christ my Lord and Savior..To my beloved thanks for loving me..I don't have anything else to fight for..❤ Thank You Jehovah God for Making a Native American just for my heartbeat ❤

[@dionnedunsmore9996]

I watched a clip today on England presenting their fly-packs strapped on the back of a soldier (enabling him to fly w.o a plane) . In the comments someone from the middle east said, 'since weve learned to swim in the sea like fish, and fly in the sky like a bird, now we need to learn and practice how to live on earth like a human.' Boy!! If they only knew just how rite they are!💔😖​@@jameskennedy6982

[@caw7007]

I miss the days when pilots would point out interesting places and facts. Yay for you. Bet your passengers and crew loved you!

[@davidthelander1299]

One thing you didn’t mention was that her husband was the only one that could speak with her. He spoke HER language. And French. Lewis and Clark (and others) spoke French to him, and he translated their words to her. That was how they communicated.

[@erldagerl9826]

yes, it was a big game of Telephone. Lewis/Clark to Charbonneau, to Sakakagwea, to Charbonneau, to Lewis and Clark. That's how we end up with corrupted names such as Blackfeet.

[@danasandoval624]

Poor girl it’s not like she had any choice in marrying that creep! Sadly we will never know about thousands of women that were treated like this in the past. We only know of her because of Lewis & Clarke. Her story needs to be told in our schools. Not just the Disney coated over story but the truth. Thanks for sharing this info with us.

[@JenWIL641]

Exactly! This wicked man owned her, gave her an std gonorrhea which would kill her so she gave her son to Lewis and Clarke to save his life from that rapist!

[@swannoir7949]

My Great-great-great grandmother experienced the same. Cherokee kidnapped from the Virginia's, then forced to marry her kidnappers son. And I'm Black -- by the way.

[@lolodee3528]

Women have known enslavement from eons ago.

[@katiejon17]

This wasn’t just “whites” doing this. Natives did this to each other hundreds of years before any “white” stepped foot on North America. As a native woman myself, I find it degrading when people virtue signal by lying about history. We aren’t stupid,

[@esaritac]

​@@swannoir7949I was thinking the same thing when I read this comment........

[@anncain2432]

I've read quite a bit about her.... extremely important in the success of the Lewis & Clark expedition. Her personal life was hell but she held her head up high and not only survived, but thrived and her legacy is a national treasure.

[@Maree742]

Dying at 24 of syphillis and smallpox… hardly call that surviving… she was a victim of others {white male’s} greed and quest for fame

[@sarahmckenzie7989]

I taught my elementary ESL students about the Lewis and Clark expedition and Sacagawea. They were very impressed with her talents and fortitude. She deserved so much better!

[@susanengel-ix8bl]

I remember being taught about all of their travels when I was a kid in school.i always thought her story was so exciting and romantic, I didn't know this story however.

[@marthiepeden5551]

Strange how magnificent woman end up with creeps ...

[@vln987]

She wasn't a servant. She was a slave to the Hidatsa tribe and then sold as a slave to a trapper. That poor girl. That's horrifying. She was an incredible woman.

[@E.C.Animation]

And referring to that monster as her "husband" 🤮😤🤬 more like cruel owner but even that is too kind of a title.

[@erldagerl9826]

@@E.C.Animation I read he won her in a poker game.

[@maryshanley329]

What is not revealed Is that tribes fought against each other and took slaves. They were fully human after all . Humans have always killed. Near the beginning of the Bible there is a murder. Cain and Abel.

[@unluckycharms9017]

One weird thing said was “they were so hungry they ate bear fat”. That was completely an average Tuesday for any frontiersman/trapper. It was the main ingredient in pemican, A dry food that would last for months, the main thing they would be eating on a voyage like this. It was so common that bear fat was a literal currency at one point in the deep frontier

[@tecraman8100]

I think they meant "they were so hungry that they ate their candles" and pemmican can actually last over a hundred years still edible

[@michaelpriest6242]

I caught that, too. It was no surprise, though, because of the wimpification and naivete of today's culture.

[@morningstarcollective4671]

@@michaelpriest6242 I mean, would city folk back then be any more aware of this? Especially without the ability to look it up like modern city folk can do? Give most people, even many people who wouldn't have survived childhood back then, the same knowledge and tools, get them to listen to said knowledge, and set them loose, they'll do just fine. All they lack is the need to learn, not the ability. We are built to survive, even when it really doesn't look like it.

[@stanwolenski9541]

⁠@@michaelpriest6242I made pemican and have had it in storage for a couple of years. I’m 76 I expect it will out last me, my children and grandson unless SHTF and we need it.

[@erldagerl9826]

They actually ate their horses.

[@purplebutterfly7257]

Now this is a person worth Learning about.

[@heidibee501]

I feel sad that she died so young. I like to think she is still out there in the wilderness feeling the joy that only nature can provide.

[@newyawkgiants5877]

Pocahontas

[@Amy_the_Lizard]

​@@newyawkgiants5877 That is a completely different woman who died in a city

[@newyawkgiants5877]

@@Amy_the_Lizard ok,she was young,worse actually treated-raped. I was going to add that Rolfe took her to England, but she got sick possible poisoned and died there. If she wasn’t taken over there she possibly would have lived longer. Her spirit could be the same as Heidi said,enjoying nature in her home land.

[@Amy_the_Lizard]

@@newyawkgiants5877 Okay, I thought you were calling her Pocahontas, or thought that Pocahontas got to return to nature or something, not that you were hoping that Pocahontas's spirit also got to return to nature. In my defense, it's hard to tell what someone means when the comment is just a name.

[@kinnish5267]

Native Indian tribes were a stone-age people into warring, genocide, cannibalism and of course, sex trafficking - there are millions of ancient indians like her lying among the scrubs and bushes of earth.

[@12thDecember]

What an extraordinary woman! A disgrace that she was forced to marry a predator, she deserved so much better. Thank you for illuminating her life and telling her incredible, and courageous, story.

[@jameskulevich8907]

It’s unfortunate but these are the things that make us tough…

[@ajulrich1072]

Children are still being sold as “brides” nothing new there! Girls are property. To be passed from man, her father, to man, her husband. It’s biblical. 🤢🤮

[@davidthelander1299]

You mean she would have been better off staying a slave? This is how native tribes treated all captives. They were slaves. The best thing (and native slave women knew it) was to get sold off to a white trader.

[@pianoreigns]

​@@jameskulevich8907Spoken like a spoiled, entitled male. Who wouldn't have the faintest idea what tough Really is.

[@ulferiksson6986]

@@jameskulevich8907Did you really think before writing that, really? You know you can delete stuff when you realize you had a brain fart…

[@teglaprbambaluftlaurvafhen5449]

Bring back the Sacageawa Dollar coin. I seriously collect them out of admiration!! She was extraordinary No Doubt and astounding Heart❤

[@susanyoung1600]

They're still available. I just bought one.

[@celestialblue7229]

I love those coins and have a few myself, I would also like to collect more:)

[@Kristie-nt3jt]

Ask your bank if they have them. Chances are they do, and will only cost their face value. A dollar.

[@alleyneT]

Many thanks for this beautiful and heartbreaking story of a very special woman.

[@Factinate]

You're very welcome, glad you enjoyed it!

[@kinnish5267]

Native Indian tribes were into warring, genocide, cannibalism and of course, sex trafficking - Indians were stone-age peoples who I can promise never shed a tear for this lovely woman

[@Orpilorp]

Some things never change. An older promiscuous man defiles a chaste little girl. Stolen away so young, she never had enough time with her mom; she learned how to be an excellent human being on her own. Thankfully the kind explorers could protect her somewhat. Im so sorry she became infected by her disgraceful husband, and didnt get to enjoy raising her children.

[@alyssaooo2671]

promiscuous??? more like violent

[@nanasewdear]

Sacagawea's story is essential to the story of Oregon. I am a 7th generation Oregonian and learned state history in the 4th grade. I think that it is still part of the curriculum. About 10 years ago we traveled to Jordan Valley and saw the grave of her son Jean Baptiste. Even though she was not a native of the state, we have adopted her as one of our own.

[@carlwetmore608]

This is someone who our children can look up to! Her story needs to be told a lot. People need to hear this!

[@Ann-rf8fi]

A beautiful strong and kind woman. Sad she had a monster for husband. I am very pleased we recognized her very important role in history.

[@annalisette5897]

Her son, Jean Baptiste, had an interesting life which history can be found online. He is buried 80-some miles down the road from my Idaho home. It has been said that he developed pneumonia during harsh weather in the high desert of Malheur County, Oregon. He stayed at a local ranch but he did not survive. Other sources name another disease but it seems to be agreed that he died of a febrile illness. There is a marker on the main highway noting the location of his grave.

[@kristinhand8856]

Oh, this is so interesting to me! Do you happen to have a photo? I will have to look into it further. My direct ancestors' cousin was the explorer Joseph R Walker. History and family stories tell us that he and Pompy (Jean Baptiste) were great friends in their middle years, and traveled together often. They also were business partners wrangling and selling horses. I am proud to have this close connection to the amazing woman that Sacajaweja was ❤ ❤ ❤ .

[@maryatkinson2006]

Why did Sacagewea's brother, the chief, not despatch her violent husband? Or insist that he return her to the tribe?

[@lisaoloughlin-tj3sm]

Yes I thought this too

[@dragonflash09]

Because contrary to what this narrator said, it's quite likely her own tribe sold her or traded her away. It's been debunked that the Hidatsa raided her tribe and kidnapped her. The Hidatsa were a peaceful tribe, not known for making enemies. The Shoshone, however, did raid camps frequently to steal food and horses. They likely traded their daughter for a few horses.

[@2WOLFS]

​@@dragonflash09her brother would have allowed her to come back to the tribe if she wished. They were not willing to have her husband to live in the camp. And Clark was very likely in love with her.

[@sandpiperr]

Probably because he was a politician and realized that, unless he was truly willing to take his people to war over it, a war that he wasn't sure he could win, he wasn't in a position to actually demand that.

[@davidthelander1299]

Contrary to this narrative, other accounts say that her and her husband had a loving relationship.

[@kathe.o.]

Sacagawea was a WARRIOR WOMAN, to survive the savagely she was treated as a child, including the abuse of that husband. To guide the expedition so carefully.She deserves our admiration. Many women of the past deserve to be recognized. Shameful few are.

[@noelleelizabethan]

I'm so glad she had Clark to care about her. I'm so glad he took care of her son. Amazing legendary woman.

[@GeoCalifornian]

I cried for Sacagawea. What a beautiful and rugged soul. She helped discover America.

[@Optimismus53]

america had long been discovered.

[@pazsion]

how do you discover a place thats been known, and her home... the americas have been known since before rome... before the pyrimids were built. the had global trade routes... thats what brought spain, france and england to them... they thought they could make another colony and steal gold from them. they had no gold, or any reason to value it past medicine.

[@dionnedunsmore9996]

​@@Optimismus53and lived in too. I think the commenter meant for settlers

[@GeoCalifornian]

@@Optimismus53 Tell that to the U.S. President who sent Lewis and Clark on their mission to discover the vast unknown parts of America.

[@m.h.6499]

She helped the new arrivals to discover America. I never realized how much she suffered. 😢

[@vikkiledgard8483]

A strong and brave woman. Married to a predator and coward. Life was hard back then, but her light shines brightly to this day.

[@johnking6252]

America should know more about how much we owe this brave young woman. 🙏 RIP Amerika.

[@imaginelovepeaceandhappine3281]

I agree, but she is not Amerika this country was named after the Italian Explorer Americo Vespucci. She is a brave young Indigenous women. She is Sacagawea.

[@shirleycooleyga]

She probably experienced PTSD. NOT MUCH KNOWN ABOUT IT THEN

[@crystalfowler2336]

@@shirleycooleygaWith all that trauma, I’m sure.

[@lpnjan7246]

I went to school with one of Sacagawea's relatives. She told us stories about her. That was back in the 60's.

[@SeraphinaoftheBayou]

So cool!

[@TrinMatrix]

I have always loved hearing stories about this extraordinary young woman.

[@joanbarkdull543]

Remarkable woman....remarkable..

[@helenmacias9769]

She had a beautiful spirit

[@user-yh3uk4xl8j]

I don't think for sure modern people have any idea how hard this woman was a true miracle

[@anniebranwen4148]

She was still a girl when she died, I would love to have met her, it's sad that people she knew didn't appreciate her, it's taking a hundred years for the honors she deserves.

[@pamjames9077]

Such a beautiful and sad story about an incredible woman. I really wish she hadn’t endured a horrible excuse of a human. 😢

[@RicktheCrofter]

Much of this story/video seems to come from a highly fictionalized movie version of the Lewis and Clark expedition. Not mentioned: one of her major contributions to the expedition was simply her presence. Native American war parties did not travel with women. So as the expedition passed into new territories, the local natives would see that the expedition had a woman with it and would, correctly, assume that it was not an invading war party.

[@deathbycheese850]

They did actually. Did you skip that bit?

[@CaptainSeamus]

Seeing the actions of 1800 from the eyes of 2024 - How dare she put up with a husband who bought her? Guess what, that was a very common practice among northern plains Indians. Why was her husband so much older? Because that was (again) a fairly common practice. Why did she stay with him? Because you were married and "for better or for worse" actually meant that, and not "for better or forget it" that seems to be what people hear these days. She was not the only forager for food, not the only person doing chores, etc etc, which is what the video implies, either. That her husband was not that great a person, is pretty obvious - if he'd been an important part of the expedition, his name would be as well known - but how many people know him? I "love" the "we don't know, but here are some lurid gossip tidbits" part of the video. The facts themselves of that expedition are amazing enough - and she truly was a hero worthy - but yeah - this is really pitching a certain angle at it that isn't necessary. She was a TOUGH human being, and God rest her soul. I do recommend reading "The Journals of Lewis and Clark" to see their own words (since Sacajawea didn't leave any herself). You did miss on one point, the video did mention it once that her (and her childs) presence were a thing - but it didn't make much of it.

[@RicktheCrofter]

@@deathbycheese850 I must have missed it.

[@ghostladydarkling3250]

She stayed with her husband because females had absolutely no rights back then, especially a native American female, even in her own tribe, clan she would of been on the bottom of the pole.

[@michelemoneywell8765]

The narrator also mentioned the presence of the baby put the tribes they met at ease.

[@cindystoneham2083]

Beautiful soul

[@Factinate]

The most beautiful✨

[@garyparker-rf9hh]

Just because it's on the Internet doesn't make it true. I don't believe it.

[@maryhodges6883]

Why is her name always mispronounced...such a shame 😢

[@pamsego4926]

@garyparker-rf9hh friend, then do your own research & read everything you can about Sacajawea.

[@whattheysayaboutme425]

So no one saved the little girl! Everyone treated her like a slave. Her own brother didn’t get her away from an abusive man!

[@rayf6126]

In most cultures it's illegal to take a woman from her husband, and for a lot of history if the women left her husband, she lost her current home, widow's rights to property, her ability to remarry, and the children she had belonged her husband and potentially her in-laws. This wasn't an option in most cases.

[@ratfromthesewersasmr5322]

The video said Clark adopted Lissette, too, but she died young.

[@laura6796]

What a brave woman she was.

[@jennyfulcher8035]

A fascinating story! Sacagawea was a brave, strong woman who endured a lot of abuse by her husband. Even so, she aided Lewis and Clarke's Expedition, got to see a beached whale, and became a role model for women of the First Nation and all women.

[@clarestucki5151]

Well done! Thanks for not perpetrating the traditional B.S. myth that the teen-age Indian girl served as the expedition "guide" to the Pacific ocean. She had never been further west than the Lemhi River Valley of eastern Idaho, and was in no position to guide the expedition over the Bitterroot range and down the western side.

[@sunnyseacat6857]

From an account I read, Sacajawea was kidnapped or trader as a child and taken east a bit. Now, whether she was kidnapped or traded to Charboneau, she was famililar with the terrain/territory, hence, her recognizing it before/when she entered into her brothers camp. She would be the perfect guide: 1) female, 2) Indian, 3) with a baby, 4) spoke 2-3 languages, 5) knew medicinal herbs, 6) could sew moccasins and show the Corp of Discovery this skill among others

[@troyanstone65]

How to completely miss the horror and courage, you really are stuck clare.

[@a.duncan4790]

In Lewis and Clark's own words they tell of her choosing the route through the mountains. That is being a guide. Modern male scholars try to discredit this by saying she was too young to remember the route because of her age when she was last there but clearly she did.

[@beverlybalius9303]

Her husband was a saddest…. She was abused terribly. The men in the Expedition knew it, they didnt like it… i read a book on her life,,, I am guessing today its a book based on facts but some fiction… i read that book 40 yrs ago but still remember it.

[@lorriegallardo8053]

Another person name York was very important to the Lewis and Clark expedition. Hewas denied his freedom and payment foe his help. He actually saved Lewis from a grizzly killing him. At the end of their return Clark sold him to a very abusive slave owner. No one knows what happened to him after 4 years with the owner. Interesting how this isn't taught in schools.

[@susanbissell6319]

I read an biography about Sacagawea. I loved the book and the story of her life. It was a very thick paperback book to read, I didn't want it to end. I still have that book to this day.

[@thomashunt6123]

Who authored that book?

[@jesseostone386]

An autobiography? I doubt she wrote it herself.

[@katiemoyer8679]

An Autobiography is a biography written by the person whose life the bio is about. I’m sensing you may have meant..a Biography., is that so?

[@susanbissell6319]

​@katiemoyer8679 thank you for letting me know my mistake, I corrected it.

[@susanbissell6319]

Anna L. Waldo. The title of the book is Sacajawea.

[@robertrowan8174]

Sacegawea Is A TRUE WARRIOR AND A TRUE HUMANITARIAN. NOT ENOUGH PEOPLE LIKE HER IN THIS WORLD.

[@HoosierSHU]

I played her in a play, about Lewis and Clark, when I was in 4th grade. I always loved her story. TY for sharing how amazing she was. ❤️

[@carlcushmanhybels8159]

Wow, I learned a lot. I thought I learned 'about' Sacagawea clearly and well in elem. school. I did not. Thank you for enlightening me correctly about her, this hero.

[@79klkw]

In THIS case,I absolutely agree! Just please do be sure to check sources on other videos, as we are in the midst of a movement to change history. Yeah, a lot of people demonize white people from the past, and venerate other races, which I SOMETIMES actually agree with,but not every time. And in this political climate, there are desperate attempts to divide us, when we are doing so much better than ever, in my opinion. All in all,I just try to listen and read carefully.

[@andreafong9952]

Well you really can’t go into too many graphic details like her husband being an accused rápido and bigamist.

[@chadalbert4977]

Lewis and Clark,,the theft of Indian land never ends

[@PenMom9]

@@andreafong9952 Also, the rape and enslavement of women and children through warmongering between the native tribes, not taught in American elementary schools.

[@teel714]

Thank you for this video. I knew a little bit about her, beforehand, but I learned a lot more about her. Now, could you please do a profile on York, the black slave that was also a part of Lewis and Clark's expedition?

[@user-mk9dj4gu1n]

If you can find the book In Search of York it is a terrific read.

[@cplmpcocptcl6306]

Now that is a mother.

[@seekingtruthnotfindingany7301]

Sadness, the wrong person died.

[@v1e1r1g1e1]

Isn't that always the way it goes? 😞

[@LisaEllis-rt3xh]

​@@v1e1r1g1e1Yes.

[@kes9612]

Always....smfh

[@haroldmocc9828]

Well i would like to add that not everything in this video fact. Such as Sacagawea was in fact 12 years old when she was bought by the french trader. Another fact was he was 32 years of age qhen he bought Sacagawea to be one of his 6 wives (1 french and 5 aboriginal). The native girls that were his wives did all the work, received much abuse and were repeatedly raped by him on a daily basis. During the journey, Meriwether & Clarke noticed how the frenchman treated Sacagawea (screaming at her, beating her & raping her. So at the Meriwether took her into his protection. After the journey he petitioed rhe president to grant her a pardon from the frenchman (which was granted), she stay with Meriwether for a short time before journeying back to the Shoshone tribe to visit her family (which ahe did frequently). Just before her last visit she took ill and asked Lewis to care for her kids in case she didn't return (she feared that she would not return this time due to illness and her last visit was told the frenchman was hunting her down). Lewis cared for Sacagawea's kids and petitioed for adoption after he found of her death. They where Christened Lewis by the church and took his last name. If anyone wants to know facts and history about natives and our culture, feel free to contact me. Im Pawmunky/Hatteras and made it my personal job to teach the real history of the native peoples that isn't written in the white man's history books. As we say, aho (just like Hawaiian's aloha, has various meanings depending on its intent, this time meaning: Peace & blessings to you).

[@S.D._777_]

I've been wanting to know more about the Pamunkey people. My 9th ggm and her children were Pamunkey from the little bit of info I've found tells me, and I want to learn all I can. 💗 I also happen to be distantly related to Lewis. He's my 9th Great Uncle or something like that, 😂. My 9th ggf was his brother.

[@Janeburns-mi9dh]

How sad. We are now finding out true history that we were not taught. She was an extraordinary woman. She deserved better.

[@Janeburns-mi9dh]

Thank you for the story.

[@beverlynorris557]

I learned so much about her, what a brave woman.

[@lauramorrow2708]

It's Sacajawea. I live in Spokane Washington! I went to Sacajawea Junior High School!

[@jaredallen1149]

Truly one of America's legendary people. You can study for literally years about the Corps of Discovery and still never lose interest. East of Billings, Montana, on I-90, there survives the only physical mark of that entire journey; Pompey's Pillar and 1 inscription. Stop and see it sometime.

[@user-rg9yz5ou4y]

The expedition also seems to have taken a lot out of Lewis and Clark as well. One of them--I can't remember which one--suffered severe attacks of depression after the expedition and ultimately committed suicide.

[@rochellenowik9875]

Lewis, died in Tennessee under suspicious circumstances, probably suicide.

[@johnminer1407]

Possibly murdered.

[@carlcushmanhybels8159]

Clark developed strong psychological problems after the journey.

[@dennistate5953]

Lewis

[@shawntailor5485]

Wouldn't you be depressed if you got named Meriweather?

[@amariah1980]

Half way through, I wanted to cry. I learned about her in elementary school in the 80's. I wasn't told about her husband.

[@Wheelchairspeeder]

I'm part Cherokee and I have mad respect for sacagewea as well as Nancy ward and other brave warrior women

[@nativeandindigenuscraftcre433]

Hi thanks you for sharing sagwia story it good thing she deserves to be heared as shoshinsa women and mom who have traveled with lou and Clark thanks again

[@Jovitinha]

I wonder how many more Sacagawea were out there that because no one wrote about them, therefore unknown to history. The poor little girl was probably born with that disease her father gave her mother, hence never had a fighting chance. Remarkable woman.

[@giancolabird]

Not likely. Her husband was the source

[@swannoir7949]

My Great-great-great grandmother was one.

[@kathrynmoffatt3185]

One of my favorite books of all time was "Sacagawea".

[@Janeburns-mi9dh]

Mine too, read it many years ago.

[@HappyFlamingo8535]

She was an amazing woman! Thank you for sharing her story!

[@dannyparker363]

Why Why , when there is always talk of Lewis and Clark, no one ever talks about the Slave York who help Lewis and Clark by learning the different languages of the Native American they meet , etc ( read the book 📕 Black West and Black Indian) like the timeless African Proverb said- Until the Lions 🦁 have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter 😳🤔

[@EddyCurrents-eh5ec]

Her name was Bo i nave. Bird woman. Sacagawea was her slave name.

[@kathybrem880]

Exactly

[@jopiekkola527]

And I could be wrong, but I believe pronouncing the "g" is incorrect. I have been taught that her name was "Sahcahcahweeah" (So sorry for the rudimentary phonetic spelling, but it was the best I could think of to impart the sounds).

[@RetroMonkey1999]

​@@jopiekkola527 her original name in Shosone sounds vaguely similar (Sacatzahweyah). I grew up in North Dakota, not far from the historical site of the Hidatsa village. Her name here is pronounced without the hard j sound. It's pronounced Suh-gah-guh-wee-uh here...or Suh-kah-guh-wee-uh. It might be a slave name, but I take its pronunciation from the people who actually gave it to her.

[@thomaskelley1718]

I always held this woman in such high esteem. What an awesome individual. I always hoped to have a woman with at least half of the spirit of this legendary lady.

[@BarbieJohnson-pm9ys]

Thank you so much ❤✌️

[@girlcheck]

This moved me deeply. I remember learning about her by and through Colorado History many times and had a friend who was an ancestor of Clark. It's disappointing to learn that history has diminished the knowledge of her. This story makes me even more thankful learning of her sacrifice and struggles 😊 Thank you 🙏

[@CJG-bk4bk]

Amazing woman!

[@latinaalma1947]

Americams used to be gifed medals of Sacagawea before special trips...my grandmother carreied hers in her wallet...it was meant to protect travelers.

[@loridavis5699]

I went to her grave site in Ft Washakie, WY. Its a very unassuming cemetery that you would drive right past if you didnt know it was there. No signs or advertisements for it at all. Thats how the Shoshone want it!

[@helencharbonneau134]

I was there also.

[@edwardhanson3664]

Bird Woman Goes to the Ocean Woman-bird-child too small to carry the dreams of a clumsy giant She gathers berries by the river close to home where each stream knows her voice and the wind lifts her song high in the sacred mountains Here she knows the name of every peak and pass has learned the medicine of each being on earth knows healing wisdom taught by the grandmothers Pouncing like a hawk on its prey destiny swoops in whooping on flying hooves from a far camp and a bird too small is unable to escape greater things that overtake her life Forged in fires of fierce living in a land as big as the sky her wings powerful her spirit steeped in ancient wisdom She is carried captive over new horizons far from the life she was born to into eastern lands where the river flows wide and muddy slow across rolling plains adopted into the family fabric of her Mandan captors her destiny not done yet A new nation comes to call asks her to lead men across high mountains to a great sea and home again teenage wife and new mother She is emissary interpreter caretaker symbol of peace Sacagawea Ed Hanson June 25, 2004

[@johnscott8390]

What a incredible woman with a devote fortitude of adventure and never conceding to the easy way out she deserves our respect and an honorable woman.

[@MsNerdsRevenge]

Thank you. I've been waiting on this. Since Clark has been playing I keep hearing her cry.

[@rodneywoods4442]

According to the story and my memory, Clark took her child to St Louis and introduced him to higher society and paid for a top education for her. If you want to research: Author, James Alexander Thom is an expert on the subject. His wife was part of the Shawnee and they have the oral history of their Shawnee Hunter and Sign Talker for to Expedition. He was another bigger than life personality on the Expedition and later on when he went back west with compatriots. And a wealth of information on the Expedition.

[@vgwinva5669]

Thank you - excellent

[@isherwood4]

Loved Sacagawea from the second grade when I first read her biography. She was treated horribly.

[@aalloy6881]

There's needs to be a term for the form of domestic abuse involving master and slave parading as husband and wife....

[@swannoir7949]

Ikr

[@barfrodgers1202]

Sexy

[@user-mk9dj4gu1n]

Thank you so much for this video 🥰🙏🏻

[@miazanchen5892]

All I can say is WOW!

[@laurametheny1008]

Well done. Thank you 🙏🏼🏜️🛶

[@nellietorres1486]

Thank you very interesting.

[@Orangeshebert]

Lovely history lesson. I learned new information about this lovely and brave woman. Please continue to share our history!

[@pants_schmants]

What a wonderful story. She wasn't eager to relive the sad parts of her past, but she was eager to enjoy the good ones. She wasn't selfish or cowardly. Sounds like a lovely person, wish I could've met her.

[@howard9684]

What a wonderful story.. As I never any of this..Thanks for sharing this wonderful video..

[@carolynharvey6052]

Awasome story👏👏 AWESOME!! What an brave "sheroe" Sacawagea was🙏

[@yvettevitacaponigro]

Thank you for the post! ✌🏼😊

[@Factinate]

Welcome!

[@yvettevitacaponigro]

@@Factinate 👍🏻😊

[@Maree742]

She was used and abused by men… all of them including Lewis and Clark… doubt they paid her a penny for her extraordinary gifts… She died of the white Mens disease..,and her children were torn from their native destiny… beyond tragic.

[@phillipboone2005]

The indigenous people of America are so fascinating in the range and variations of their micro cultures. The Comanche were a pure warrior society. The leader was whichever warrior had the stro gest medicine or fighting spirit at the time. In contrast Lewis and Clark did nt meet hostiles in Oregon or the west coast. I read what struck the Spanish expedition into California the most was the number of bands of natives from Santa Barbera to what is now San Francisco Bay. This was 1772, they found the highest population of indigenous people in the north americas and they were incredibly pacifist. They wrote they were invited to dine wherever they went and continues resupplied by the people they encountered.

[@fifthavenue8505]

I truly think it would have been best to let us know that Sacagawea died when she was twenty-four at the beginning of the video. You, or rather your story made us come to love Sacagawea and finding out that she died so young and especially after a relentlessly terrible life, it became relentlessly sad and even sadder when learning about her death. Sure, it's great her hame lives on, but she doesn''t know it. I kept thinking either Lewis or Clark was going to make a difference in her life. Her children must have missed her greatly.

[@luztorres4346]

Great story!! Thank you!

[@junemulcock9660]

Great story really enjoyed reading, they should have more to our children will know more history of USA & CANADA.

[@rewaaustin4364]

Beautiful story.

[@andrewspence2037]

What an exceptional and strong woman. Her story is not spoken of enough. An angel captured and tortured by a devil. I pray that she found salvation and returned to God's loving embrace.

[@PriestessYuuki19]

Im happy to know more about this wonderful strong woman ❤

[@katemoore6249]

Great history lesson. Thank you.

[@Rebeccacell]

So sad that tough boss babe was saddled with such an a$$ of a husband. Such a sad life.

[@wiccanmoon0001]

What an amazing young woman. ❤

[@darrencorrigan8505]

Thanks, Square Facts.

[@evelynbare1975]

She had no choice, literally. 😢

[@davidlord7364]

Wonderful!!!!

[@nancyvillines4552]

Very interesting. I loved it 😊

[@oasismike2905]

Thanks for teaching me a few things I didn't know! I used to take my daughter to story times at the library; one time a man dressed and spoke as one of Lewis and Clark's crew. His first person perspective focused on Sacagawea's contributions, demeanor and heroism... that was so exciting, and indelible.

[@tessm6440]

Fantastic story of a very brave women. Maks me proud that i also have indian blood in me. My qrandma and father were chateau.