Geronimo was an Apache leader and medicine man best known for his fearlessness in resisting anyone—Mexican or American—who attempted to remove his people from their tribal lands. He repeatedly evaded capture and life on a reservation, and during his final escape, a The faces of four U. So while Mount Live TV. This Day In History. History Vault. Sacagawea Meets Lewis and Clark Meanwhile, President Thomas Jefferson had made the Louisiana Purchase from France in —, square miles of almost completely unexplored territory.
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Rushmore The faces of four U. See More. When Jean Baptiste was 55 days old…. Charbonneau was a particular individual, the least liked of all the members of the. Historians have portrayed him as a coward who hit his wife and had a particular attraction to young Native American girls. He is…. Sacagawea belonged to the Agaidikas and is the most well-known member of the Shoshone…. Relations were friendly with the Nez Perce people. Starvation was no longer a concern, but after they had stuffed themselves on camas a root the Nez Perces used to make bread and salmon, indigestion and diarrhea were.
Still, they were able to make new canoes and to gain information from the Nez Perces about the path, or rivers, ahead. On November 15, , they saw the shine of the Pacific…after this the expedition raised the Stars and Stripes above the great Pacific Ocean.
The 23 men, the usually drunk French-Canadian Charbonneau, Sacajawea and her son Pomp had a very hard winter there on the coast, White wrote. Food was scarce, and Sacajawea gave a starving and sick Clark some bread she had been carrying with her in a little leather pouch that had been intended for her child.
One day in January, Clark and some of the others, including Sacagawea, ventured from camp to check out a beached whale. The starving men came upon a beached whale and began to overeat, not realizing how the concentrated fats and oils would affect their bodies, White wrote. They became deathly ill. Years later, the men would tell the story of how they would have surely died had it not been for a little Indian girl who somehow miraculously was able to know what the dying men needed to recover.
Sacajawea spent days upon end searching for and trying to grow and cultivate fennel roots,…a perennial herb of the carrot family…for its aromatic seeds. At one of the Indian camps, Clark noticed an exquisitely made sea otter coat. He had to have it! White wrote. Nevertheless, he lost his head and offered whatever they had left…to the Indian woman for the beautiful fur coat. He must have it…they must see it in St. Louis and the president of the United States [Jefferson] must see it.
Unfortunately, the Indian woman was not tempted to trade with Clark. She shook her head and made negative motions with her hand. The coat was not for sale. She walked away leaving a dejected and disappointed Clark, who went to his tent to lick his wounds. The next morning, as the camp and men were packing up…they noticed that Sacajawea was missing.
Where was she? She was nowhere to be found. The men were concerned. They were standing around discussing where to go to look for her when they saw her come over the hill from the Indian camp carrying something on her arm. She walked over to Clark and, smiling at him, handed him the beautiful sea otter coat…. Clark noticed for the first time that the old brown buffalo robe that she wore was hanging loose on her where before it had been drawn tight around her waist with a beautiful beaded turquoise belt.
Sacajawea looked back again at Clark before hoisting her son upon her back…. Sacajawea had known that the Indian woman with the sea otter coat would probably want the beautiful turquoise belt, too, just like she did. She was right. After a night of bartering and discussions she had unselfishly traded her precious belt for a fur coat her white friend wanted so much. The Corps of Discovery finally left Fort Clatsop on March 23, , heading east and passing many familiar landmarks.
Once back in what is now Montana, Clark and Lewis temporarily parted company to explore different areas. Lewis and Clark were back together and back at the Mandan village by mid-August. The Corps of Discovery started to disband. One of its members, John Colter, headed west again with two fur traders. Toussaint Charbonneau would later do some trading and become a longtime government interpreter for the Indian Bureau. He probably died in
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