The Indian woman informed me that she had been in this plain frequently and knew it well... She said we would discover a gap in the mountains in our direction.
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Sacagawea
Born around 1788 into the Lemhi Shoshone people, Sacagawea was a Native American woman who, at age sixteen with a two-month-old infant on her back, accompanied the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-06) as interpreter and guide. Her presence proved indispensable to the Corps of Discovery's success in reaching the Pacific. Later adopted as a symbol by the women's suffrage movement, she appears on the US one-dollar coin and is America's most recognized indigenous woman.
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Sacagawea's Other Quotes
Your woman who accompanied you that long dangerous and fatiguing route to the Pacific Ocean and back deserved a greater reward for her attention and services on that route than we had in our power to give her.
The wife of Shabono our interpreter, we find reconciles all the Indians, as to our friendly intentions a woman with a party of men is a token of peace.
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