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Sacagawea lived as a captive of the Hidatsa for three years until she married a 38-year-old French Canadian fur trader, Toussaint Charbonneau, who lived among the tribe. Charbonneau was already ...
Sacagawea lived among the Hidatsa tribe until 1803 or 1804, when she and another Shoshone woman were either sold or gambled away to a French-Canadian fur trader named Toussaint Charbonneau ...
After she was captured, a French-Canadian trader living amongst the Hidatsa named Toussaint Charbonneau claimed her as one of ...
The son of Toussaint Charbonneau and Sacagawea traveled as an infant on his mother's back all the way to the Pacific Ocean beaches in Oregon Territory. After the expedition, Capt. William Clark ...
And of course, while still a teenager, she and her French fur trapper husband, Toussaint Charbonneau, agreed to serve as interpreters and guides for the Lewis and Clark expedition. A six-foot tall ...
STANTON, N.D. – The Hidatsa Indians had farmed, fished, hunted and prospered along the upper Missouri River and lower Knife River for more than 300 years before Meriwether Lewis, William Clark ...
There, she was later sold as a slave to Toussaint Charbonneau, a French-Canadian fur trader who claimed Sacagawea and another Shoshone woman as his “wives.” In November 1804, the Corps of ...
quot;As to your little Son (my boy Pomp)," Clark wrote to Toussaint Charbonneau, Sacajawea’s husband who accompanied the Corps of Discovery as an interpreter, "you well know my ...
They continue to say that she [Sacajewea] was the wife of Toussaint Charbonneau. How could she possibly be the wife of Charbonneau? She was an enslaved woman who, according to their account ...