Sacagawea

Please excuse the scribbles on my drawing above.  Berrett!  More on my hero, Sacagawea:

Facts on Sacagawea

• In 1999, the U.S. Treasury paid tribute to Sacagawea by putting her picture on the golden dollar coin.
• Clark drew plants, trees, and animals, but never once sketched Sacagawea.
• There are a river, two lakes, and four mountain peaks named after Sacagawea.
• Sacagawea means bird woman.
• Sacagawea was born in modern day Idaho.
• Lewis and Clark depended on Sacagawea because she spoke several native american languages and dialects.
• Sacagawea was kidnapped by Hidatsa raiders when she was 11.
• After she was kidnapped, she was sold to a fur trader Toussaint Charbonneau, who later became her husband.
• When Sacagawea went in to labor the baby did not come out for almost 2 and a half days, until an Indian woman gave her some dried rattlesnake to hasten the birth. Ten minutes later, out came her baby boy.
• Sacagawea got to vote at Fort Clatsop. This was important because women did not have voting rights at this time in the world.  
  
  
  Signing Off,
  Evalynn and Mom