Most American people have heard of Sacagawea because this is a really legendary name.

This Native American girl from the Shoshone tribe is famous for being an interpreter and the only woman in the expedition by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark from 1804 to 1806.

There is very little evidence about the girl’s childhood and youth until the age of thirteen when she meets her future husband, a white trapper from Quebec. In 1804, the trapper is hired by the two explorers and this is how Sacagawea becomes a translator and a member of the expedition.

The woman and her white husband had two children and after the expedition spent the rest of life in St. Louis, Missouri. Around 1812, Sacagawea died from an unknown disease. Interestingly, some people gossiped that she returned to her tribe and lived there for more than 70 years.

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