Sacajawea was a Shoshone interpreter notable for being the only woman on the Lewis and Clark Expedition to the American West. She was their guide and advisor regarding the unknown nature and terrain during the expedition. Sacajawea, was the daughter of a Shoshone chief, born in the year 1788 in Lemhi County, Idaho. At about age 12, she was captured by an enemy tribe and sold to a French-Canadian fur trapper named Toussaint Charbonneau, who made her one of his wives. They live among the Hidatsa and Mandan Indians in the upper Missouri River area where in November 1804 an expedition led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark entered the area, during which she and her husband were invited to join the Lewis and Clark expedition as Shoshone . interpreter. Although she was pregnant with her first child, due to her extensive knowledge of the Shoshone language she was an essential member of the crew needed for the success of the expedition. After giving birth during the Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau expedition on February 11, 1805, she became a symbol of peace for...