Sacagaweawebquest

Sacagwea Webquest By Lucre'ce Estropia, MS#4 WebQuest Introduction-Sacagawea In this WebQuest, you will be creating a video about Sacagawea and how she contibuted in the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Brieft Biography of Sacagawea: Sacagawea was a an Indian Shoshone interpreter, born around 1788 near the Continental Divide at the present day Idaho-Montana border and died on Dec. 20, 1812 at Fort Manuel on the Missouri River, Dakota Territory. Sacagawea was a near-legendary figure in the history of the American West for her indispensible role on the Lewis and Clark Expedition. The history of her life remains enigma for historians. She traveled thousands of wilderness miles with the Lewis and Clark Expedition from the Mandan-Hidatsa villages in the Dakotas to the Pacific North West (1804-06). She was in the making of proving her valuables as an interpreter, was a peacemaker with the Shoshone, and guided over the Great Divide. Sacagawea was often called by early travelers who praise for her character and services with her nickname, The Bird Woman. She was the daughter of a Shoshone chief. Around the age 12, Sacagawea was captured by Hidatsa Indians, and enemy of the Shoshones. She was then sold to a French Canadian trapper named Toussaint Charbonneau who made her one of his wives. Lewis and Clark engaged Charbonneau was an interpreter for their expedition in 1804 and so, Sacagawea would accompany them. Sacagawea gave birth to her first child, a son named Jean Baptiste Charbonneau. She and her baby were brought because it would establish that the peaceful nature of the expedition and that it would be useful to have someone who spoke a Native Language who was familiar with more than one tribe. Sacagawea became a Native translator and negotiator for the Corps of Discovery. Sacagawea was mainly the mother of the expedition, preparing food when food was scarce and helping to keep horses and food from her ability to speak and negotiate well with the Native tribes. Sacagawea finished this journey, and then returned to the upper Missouri with her husband. She soon died of an epidemic of putrid fever late in 1812. Historians say that Sacagawea rejoined the Shoshone on their Wind River reservation and died there in 1884.