SACAJAWEA STORY

At the age of 12 Sacajawea was stolen from her Idaho homeland and taken to North Dakota. There she lived with the Hidatsa Indian tribes.
They called her bird woman or Sacagawea.
Sacagawea was enslaved by the different Indian tribes until she was sold to Toussaint Charbonneau a French-Canadian fur trapper.
He moved her to Fort Mandan where she became another one of his wives.
Lewis and Clark just happened to be staying there also. Once the winter had passed, Lewis and Clark hired Charbonneau as a guide, due to his knowledge of the area from trapping around there.
Sacagawea, at the age of 15, was a new Mother to a boy named Jean Baptiste.
She was brought along because of her ability to speak several languages.
With her presence on the expedition, it would appear that Lewis and Clark was on a peaceful mission. So with baby strapped to her back off the explorers went.
Sacagawea proved to be a major asset to the expedition in its encounters with finding food, herbs for medicine and encounters with different people along the way.
She led them back to her native homeland of Idaho, now known as the Salmon area.
Her brother was now the chief, he referred to her as Sacajawea.
Clark was taken by this beautiful young woman and learned to love her son, Jean Baptiste.
He was willing to do all he could for her and her child to keep her safe from the wife beating Charbonneau.
Clark even named a beautiful river Sacajawea.
After returning to Fort Manuel, South Dakota, Clark kept in contact with Charbonneau and Sacajawea, offering to take Jean Baptiste and educating him in St. Louis, Missouri.
This came to be, by then Sacajawea was giving birth to a baby girl, named Lisette, and both became ill. Sadly a few months later Sacajawea died at the age of 25, leaving a sick and motherless baby. Some say Clark was called and he took the baby but later she passed away also.
Then others say Sacajawea went back to her homeland, marring several times and had more children. Living to a rip old age and dieing in Wyoming.
On the Wind River, Wyoming Reservation, they have a grave for her and John Baptiese. A monument to her honor.
We have gone to the monument in Wyoming and Salmon, Idaho. I have read and listened to the stories of her life and death.
It is in my opinion that she is from the Salmon, Idaho area. Her real spelling to her name is Sacajawea, meaning boat launcher.
Or is it? I am from Idaho. Is it I just want a piece of her history to stay in Idaho? Just like they do in Wyoming, North Dakota and South Dakota.
There is a beautiful monument in her honor in Salmon, Idaho. A beautiful burial memorial site in Wyoming. Also a simple monument to her in South Dakota, you will have to decide which story or stories you believe.
That is not the only thing to consider, how do you spell her name?
So many questions surround this woman; the history was never properly recorded.