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Sacagawea  Sacagawea was born around 1788. Sacagawea is the daughter of a Shoshone Chief. She was also the only women on the Lewis and Clark expedition. Around the age of twelve she was captured by an enemy of the Shoshone, the Hidatsa Indians, she was then sold to a French-Canadian trapper named Toussaint Charbonneau who made her one of his wives. they lived in the upper missouri river area. on November 1804, an expedition led by weriwether lewis and william clark (lewis & Clark Expedition). The expidition was made to find and discover new western lands and route a course to the Pacific Ocean. The group, includiing others in the group, built Fort Mandan and stayed there for the winter. When Lewis and Clark met Charbonnueau they quickly hired him to serve as interpreter in the expidition. Since Sacagawea knew the Shoshone language they thought it would come in handy in their expeedition. Even though she was pregnat they took Sacagwea on their journey. []