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
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.
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.
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