Sacagawea video biography business

ByBecki Robins

Disney hasn't made a movie about her life (yet) but most Americans know her name — Sacagawea, the Shoshone woman who led explorers Lewis and Clark on an 8,000-mile journey to the Pacific Ocean.

And if that's not remarkable enough, she did it while carrying her infant son on her back and without a single triple shot venti macchiato, which everyone knows is the only thing that keeps new mothers in a state of actual consciousness.

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The story of the Lewis and Clark expedition is pretty well known, but the details about the only woman member of the party are vanishingly few.

We know she was just 15 or 16 years old, we know she was valuable as both an interpreter and a guide, and we know her brother was a Shoshone chief. The more obscure details about her life are buried in the Lewis and Clark journals, in a few oral histories, and in the ground with her, though that hasn't stopped anyone from