Sacagawea, the Shoshone interpreter for the Lewis and Clark expedition, dies at the age of 24 in 1812.
Sacagawea served as an interpreter and guide for Meriwether Lewis and William Clark's westward voyage from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Coast. Sacagawea is usually thought to be a Hidatsa name, despite being spelt in a variety of ways in the notebooks of expedition members. Sacagawea was born in what is now the state of Idaho in 1788. Sacagawea was seized by an enemy tribe, the Hidatsa, when she was around 12 years old and transported from her Lemhi Shoshone people to Hidatsa towns near present-day Bismarck, North Dakota.
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