Sacagawea Biography Essay

Sacagawea’s Biography Sacagawea honestly a great women, although she might have died in 1812 or 1884 in December age 26 or 98 we are unsure of her actual death, there are many conspiracies about her death, but her reputation didn’t die there she was used as a symbol in the women’s suffrage movement.

Why would they use Sacagawea in women’s suffrage movement with her being so far in the past. There are records of her that the public can read/see her astonishing struggle. Scholars think she may have been born around 1788 in Lemhi County, but here birthdate is not known. One of Sacagawea biggest and most known accomplishments, consisted of being a guide for Lewis & Clark, but before this she had to go through many hardships, born into “The Salmon Eater of Agaidika” tribe at age the twelve (1800) she was kidnapped by a group of Hidatsa. Four years later, she was sold to and became the wife of an abusive man/chief Charbonneau. Empregnatee with a baby boy that was later to be called Jean Baptiste Charbonneau. later that year (1804 - during winter time) Lewis and Clark were interviewing several men to hire as a guide but Charbonneau was hired due to Sacagawea for speaking Shoshone. Lewis & Clark would

Sacagawea died at the age 26 due to what later medical researchers believed was a serious illness and that she had suffered most of her adulthood, They believe that Sacagawea’s condition may have been aggravated by her daughter’s birth; But after all this is just a theory.

Thus is why Sacagawea has been such a great importance to history not just because of the Lewis and Clark expedition, but because of all the hardships she had to face before. Sacagawea doesn’t give up and also showing women that they can do more than what they are set out to be. Many people see Sacagawea as their role model for having Bravery and courage to not give up when times are