In the space of a year, Sacagawea had given birth, found her kin, and walked halfway across a continent. Her fate is a mystery, yet her legend lives on as pathfinder, feminist icon, and Indian heroine.
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| Sacagawea's Journey with the Corps of Discovery | |
Of all the episodes in which Sacagawea plays a part, there is only one in which she expresses a longing of her own. One afternoon at Fort Clatsop, in what is now Oregon, Captain Clark announced that he would be taking a party out to the coast to see a beached whale. He wrote, "The last evening Shabono and his Indian woman was very impatient to be permitted to go with me, and was therefore indulged, She observed that She had traveled a long way with us to See the great waters, and that now that monstrous fish was also to be Seen, she thought it verry hard that She Could not be permitted to See either (She had never yet been to the Ocian.)" There is no record of what Sacagawea said or felt when she saw the great waters, but the moment is rich still. |
