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Funny Fill-In. Amazing Animals. Weird But True! Party Animals. Try This! Explore More. Read this next. Women Heroes. The Women's Suffrage Movement Getting the right to vote didn't come easy for women. Here's how they got it done. For tribes constantly on the move, interaction, peaceful and otherwise, with other Indian groups became increasingly common, ultimately transforming the Northwestern plains into a network of nomadic and semi-settled tribes and larger confederacies.

As European merchants and fur trappers encroached further into the area, however, they actively sought out more concentrated areas as trading centers, giving the more settled tribes better access to guns and other tools, and driving up competition for food and resources between native groups. At the age of 12, a raiding party from the Siouan-speaking Hidasta tribe took her prisoner and sold her off to Charbonneau, who lived with them in their North Dakota village.

The explorers both struck up a friendship with the young woman, and quickly learned that she was far more linguistically adept than her husband, and so requested to Charbonneau that he bring her along as an additional interpreter, to which he agreed. The only woman to accompany Lewis and Clark, Sacagawea is not mentioned often in their journals, but provided critical support nonetheless.

Bringing her child Jean-Baptiste along, she traveled with the expedition from Fort Mandan all the way to the Pacific Coast and back again. Her knowledge of the Shoshone lands she grew up on provided great help as the group crossed over the Rocky Mountains, locating passes they would not have been able to find otherwise.

But the most useful skillset she brought to the group was diplomatic. Crossing through her Idaho homelands became especially easy thanks to a chance reunion with her brother Cameahwait, now a Lemhi chief.

Many historians speculate that her presence as a woman alone was enough to protect the group from hostile actions, as inter-tribal diplomacy was well within the wheelhouse of women for many groups in the Northwest, whereas an all-male group would have given the picture of a hunting or raiding party. While on the return trip home, the expedition made their final goodbyes to Sacagawea, Charbonneau and their family at Fort Mandan.

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Amy Mossett as Sacagawea. NPS photo Imagine yourself a teenager — just 16 or 17 years old. More information about Sacagawea is available in the following books and web sites.