Sacagawea (Sakakawea, Sacajawea) (1787 - 20 December 1812) was a Native American woman who accompanied Meriwether Lewis and the Corps of discovery of William Clark. Most of the stories in his life obtained from the records that are incomplete and therefore spiked with many legends and rumors.
She was born of the Shoshone tribe in the area near what is now the city of Three Forks, Montana, and engaged at an early age with a man much older. However, in 1800, he was kidnapped by a group of Hidatsa, and taken to their village near Washburn, North Dakota. Consequently, he grew cultures affiliated with this tribe, its name taken from the Hidatsa phrase for "Bird Woman."



