Sacagawea, American explorer (born 1788)

Sacagawea

Native American explorer (c.1788 – 1812)

Sacagawea was a Lemhi Shoshone or Hidatsa woman who, in her teens, helped the Lewis and Clark Expedition in achieving their chartered mission objectives by exploring the Louisiana Territory. Sacagawea traveled with the expedition thousands of miles from North Dakota to the…