She was born c. 1788 into the Agaidika ribe near present-day Salmon, Lemhi County. This is near the continental divide at the present-day Idaho-Montana border. In 1800, when she was about 12 years old, Sacagawea and several other girls were taken captive by a group of Hidatsa. At about age 13, she was sold into a non-consensual marriage to Toussaint Charbonneau, a Quebecois trapper about two decades earlier who lived in the Hidatsa village.
Sacagawea helped Lewis and Clark with her skills as a
translator, as was her intimate knowledge of some difficult terrain.
Explanation:
Sacagawea accompanied Lewis and Clark and their Corps of Discovery through 1805 - 1806 from the northern plains through the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean and back.
