Sacagawea
Sacagawea (also Sacajawea) was a Lemhi Shoshone woman who traveled with the Lewis and Clark Expedition from Fort Mandan to the Pacific and back, with Toussaint Charbonneau and their infant Jean Baptiste. The journals record her as an interpreter and a source of local geographic knowledge, and they place her at the August 1805 meeting with Cameahwait. This page gathers journal entries, analyses, and artwork tagged to her.
Portrait: Edgar S. Paxson, 1912
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Note: the longest gap between tagged appearances is about 7 months (Nov 16, 1803 → Jun 22, 1804). Sacagawea may have been present in the corps during that span but is not named in the journals.
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Journal Entries (68)
Cross-Narrator Analyses
Analyses that cite or discuss Sacagawea — showing 24 of the most recent matches.
Sacagawea: The Shoshone Interpreter of the Corps of Discovery
Recruitment at Fort MandanSacagawea entered the expedition record indirectly, through her husband. On November 4, 1804, Clark’s journal for that day records…
Sacagawea’s Capture Site and a Captain Lost Among Beaver Dams
The entries for July 30, 1805, ascending Jefferson's River from the Three Forks, reveal a sharp divergence in what each narrator chose…
A Damp Christmas at Fort Clatsop: Two Enlisted Men Mark the Day
The journals of Patrick Gass and John Ordway for December 25, 1805 read, at first glance, as if one were transcribed from…
A Finished Canoe, an Empty Larder: Four Voices at Camp Chopunnish
The entries of May 26, 1806, capture the Corps of Discovery in suspended motion at Camp Chopunnish along the Clearwater, waiting for…
A Kettle Refused, a Sword Accepted: Four Voices at Yelleppit’s Camp
The 28th of April 1806 found the returning Corps of Discovery encamped near the mouth of the Walla Walla River, in extended…
A Sweat That Failed and a Bear of Many Colors
The entries of May 25, 1806, written from the Long Camp on the Clearwater, illustrate how dramatically the four expedition diarists could…
An Eagle’s Salmon and a Bear of Many Colors: Four Voices at Camp Chopunnish
The entries of May 18, 1806, offer an unusually clear window into how the four journalists of the Lewis and Clark expedition…
Bears, Roots, and a Harmless Snake: Four Voices at Camp Chopunnish
The entries of May 16, 1806 offer an unusually clear window into how the expedition's four active journalists divided narrative labor during…
Cold Rain on the Divided Plains: Two Camps, One Expedition
By July 9, 1806, the Corps of Discovery had divided into multiple parties to explore the country between the Continental Divide and…
Crossing the Columbia for Horses: Four Pens at The Dalles
The entries of April 16, 1806, capture the Lewis and Clark expedition at a logistical pivot: the Columbia would no longer carry…
Elk Meat, Wapato Roots, and a Name Carved in Pine
The journal entries for December 3, 1805, capture a single day at the peninsula where the Corps of Discovery would soon establish…
Fir Trees Aflame: Four Accounts of a Single Day on Hungry Creek
The expedition's June 25, 1806 entries offer a striking case study in how four men sharing the same camp produced four very…
Four Pens, One Council: Diplomacy and Doctoring Among the Chopunnish
The 11th of May 1806 finds the Corps of Discovery encamped among the Chopunnish (Nez Perce), reclaiming horses left the previous autumn…
Hunger’s Evidence: Pine Bark, Fish Traps, and Diplomatic Strain on the Kooskooskee
The entries of Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and John Ordway for May 8, 1806, document the same morning of hunting and the…
Parting at Travelers’ Rest: Four Voices on a Pivotal Division
July 3, 1806 marked a tactical decision: the deliberate division of the Corps into two parties at Travelers' Rest, with Captain Lewis…
Salt, Storms, and a Beached Whale: Three Voices at Fort Clatsop
This analysis was generated with AI assistance and reviewed by a human editor.The journal entries dated 28 December 1805 present an unusual…
Sawyers by Moonlight: Four Voices on a Near-Drowning Above Milk River
The journals of August 4, 1806, offer a striking case study in how four men sharing the same river on the same…
Spoiled Caches and Parting Ways: Four Voices at the Three Forks
July 13, 1806 finds the Corps of Discovery operating in two widely separated theaters. At the Great Falls, Meriwether Lewis reopens the…
The Sweat Hole at Camp Chopunnish: Four Voices on Frontier Medicine
The journals of May 24, 1806 offer an unusually rich opportunity to compare narrators, because all four diarists present at Camp Chopunnish…
The Whale at Tillamook Head: Three Vantage Points on a Single January Day
The journal entries for January 8, 1806, capture the Lewis and Clark expedition at a moment of geographic and narrative dispersal. Clark,…
Two Camps, Two Registers: Skins, Goose Berries, and a Missing Pair
The August 9, 1806 entries capture the Corps of Discovery still bisected, with Captain Lewis encamped upriver mending clothes and waiting, and…
Two Camps, Two Worlds: Caching at the Falls While Clark Swamps Among Beaver Dams
By mid-July 1806, the expedition had split into detachments pursuing separate routes back across the continent. The journal entries for July 14…
Two Captains, Two Continents: The Divided Corps on Divergent Trails
By July 6, 1806, Captains Lewis and Clark had divided the Corps of Discovery to explore separate return routes. Lewis pressed eastward…
Two Departures at the Mandan Villages: Colter Turns Back, Sheheke Heads East
The entries of Patrick Gass and John Ordway for August 17, 1806, document the same sequence of events near the Mandan villages:…
From the Heacock Memorial Archive
7 lewis-clark.org articles that mention Sacagawea, preserved here for Robert Heacock’s photography. The articles were written by that site’s contributing authors.
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