Why was she a legacy?
Sacagawea was a legacy because she was a strong independent women. She has faced allot of hardships and still seemed to pull through it all. She helped Lewis and Clark spot the Pacific Ocean, she nursed them back to health.
The expidition was a great desire of Thomas Jefferson. They did not do it alone though they had help of their assistant a little Native American girl. Some know her as Sacajawea,Sakakawea, or Sacagawea. Although she helped allot during the expidition she did not guide them, but she did know some of the land really well, she translated for them and was a kind of Peace maker.
Lewis and Clark started their expedition in May but Sacagawea did not come into the picture until November after Lewis and Clark set up a winter camp at Fort Mandan (which in present day is North Dakota) Lewis and Clark and other explores got into an argument with the Black Head Indians.They couldl not under stand so they asked Sacagawea to translate for them. She translated and it turned out that they had settled in a part of their land in order for them to stay they had to give a great amount of food. During her youth among the Shoshoni and the Hidatsa, Sacajawea learned much that would later enable her to help the Lewis and Clark Expedition. For instance, she became an expert in the local flora, becoming skilled at finding berries and nuts, a skill that would help feed the expedition and diversify its diet. Perhaps most importantly, her early capture by enemies accustomed her to hardship; somehow, Sacajawea managed to develop into a cheerful person who accepted the most difficult situations calmly. For this reason, she would practically never complain during the expedition, despite carrying a baby on her back on an 8,000-mile trek although the young mother had almost died during childbirth. As she was suffering and in great agony, Clark, in an effort to raise her spirits, presented her with a beaded turquoise belt that he had been wearing, White wrote in Things That I Appreciate, an unpublished manuscript penned in the early 1970s. He had been watching her admire it and knew she wanted it more than anything else in the world. As she lay suffering and at death's door, he took it off and laid it across her. She was so happy because she had always wanted that belt.
Sacagawea became sick in the spring of 1805 after the group left Fort Mandan, and Lewis expressed concern for her in his journal. He also was concerned about the expedition, since she was our only dependence for a friendly negotiation with the Snake [Shoshone] Indians on whom we depend for horses to assist us in our portage from the Missouri to the Columbia River. In July, after Sacagawea recovered and began recognizing some landmarks, Lewis and Clark felt better about things.
For Native American tribes two elements of this story are important. The first element is that in the history of the expedition two different Indian women saved the corps—Sacagawea, as a translator whose brother Cameahwait sold them horses, and a Nez Perce female elder who spared their lives. Second, though white women had little social standing in the Virginia of the captains’ birth and were rarely consulted on important decisions, among Indian communities, then and now, women's opinions are highly respected. Few interpreters get that story straight or understand the nuances of Native American history. Clearly, Indian interpretation needs to be central to the bicentennial.
The expidition was a great desire of Thomas Jefferson. They did not do it alone though they had help of their assistant a little Native American girl. Some know her as Sacajawea,Sakakawea, or Sacagawea. Although she helped allot during the expidition she did not guide them, but she did know some of the land really well, she translated for them and was a kind of Peace maker.
Lewis and Clark started their expedition in May but Sacagawea did not come into the picture until November after Lewis and Clark set up a winter camp at Fort Mandan (which in present day is North Dakota) Lewis and Clark and other explores got into an argument with the Black Head Indians.They couldl not under stand so they asked Sacagawea to translate for them. She translated and it turned out that they had settled in a part of their land in order for them to stay they had to give a great amount of food. During her youth among the Shoshoni and the Hidatsa, Sacajawea learned much that would later enable her to help the Lewis and Clark Expedition. For instance, she became an expert in the local flora, becoming skilled at finding berries and nuts, a skill that would help feed the expedition and diversify its diet. Perhaps most importantly, her early capture by enemies accustomed her to hardship; somehow, Sacajawea managed to develop into a cheerful person who accepted the most difficult situations calmly. For this reason, she would practically never complain during the expedition, despite carrying a baby on her back on an 8,000-mile trek although the young mother had almost died during childbirth. As she was suffering and in great agony, Clark, in an effort to raise her spirits, presented her with a beaded turquoise belt that he had been wearing, White wrote in Things That I Appreciate, an unpublished manuscript penned in the early 1970s. He had been watching her admire it and knew she wanted it more than anything else in the world. As she lay suffering and at death's door, he took it off and laid it across her. She was so happy because she had always wanted that belt.
Sacagawea became sick in the spring of 1805 after the group left Fort Mandan, and Lewis expressed concern for her in his journal. He also was concerned about the expedition, since she was our only dependence for a friendly negotiation with the Snake [Shoshone] Indians on whom we depend for horses to assist us in our portage from the Missouri to the Columbia River. In July, after Sacagawea recovered and began recognizing some landmarks, Lewis and Clark felt better about things.
For Native American tribes two elements of this story are important. The first element is that in the history of the expedition two different Indian women saved the corps—Sacagawea, as a translator whose brother Cameahwait sold them horses, and a Nez Perce female elder who spared their lives. Second, though white women had little social standing in the Virginia of the captains’ birth and were rarely consulted on important decisions, among Indian communities, then and now, women's opinions are highly respected. Few interpreters get that story straight or understand the nuances of Native American history. Clearly, Indian interpretation needs to be central to the bicentennial.