History’s like a multiple choice quiz with no wrong answer. No one has enough accurate data to answer any question exactly, ever. History has Sacagawea filed into multiple endings, all with legitimate answers that are cast in stone with the quarry historians who mined them. Sacagawea came to prominence with the Louisiana Purchase on 4/30/1803 by the good, new USA. Once Thomas Jefferson authorized the purchase, he sent an educated Merriweather Lewis and military commander William Clark off on a journey to explore the new acquisition. Accompanied by over 40 people, hand-picked for their special skills, they departed St. Charles, Mo., and later encountered a 16(?) year old bilingual Sacagawea and her husband/trapper/ interpreter, Charbonneau. Departing a Hidatsa/Mandan village in April 1805, she and her 2-month-old child joined the group on their 2 year epic trip to the Pacific coast and back. Sacagawea allegedly was originally from the Idaho territory of the Shoshone tribe and was kidnapped by the Hidatsa tribe when she was 12. She was taken to North Dakota, where she then encountered the Corp of Discovery and joined them. After her completion of an extreme physical challenge that few current Americans could survive, the amazing woman disappeared from history. Three locations exist as her final resting place. One is a Shoshone cemetery in Fort Washakie, Wy. with a listed age of around 96 years. An American history version says she died at age 25 at Fort Manuel, South Dakota. A Hidatsa version says that Sacagawea was a Hidatsa native who was kidnapped by the Shoshone, and her grave is somewhere underneath the Sacagawea Reservoir in North Dakota. So, what is the real story? Simple! Sacagawea is the EVE (Adam and Eve) of all American genealogy west of the Mississippi River. For $79, 23 And Gee? will link your heritage to her. If you were born east of the Mississippi, your great, great, great, great, great, great grandma is Pocahontas.
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