Sacagawea
     Bird woman, other wise known as Sacagawea, is member of the Shoshone tribe.  She was separated from her tribe at age 10, when she was kidnapped by the Hidatsa tribe.  They then sold her as a slave to the Mandan Sioux.  Sacagawea and another girl were purchased by a French Canadian Trapper, Toussaint Charbonneau.  Sacagawea and Charbonneau were married.  Sacagawea then became pregnant with Charbonneau child.  While having her baby Sacagawea almost died.  She lived through it, and named him Jean Baptist Charbonneau.
     Charbonneau was hired by two Captains as an interpreter, so Sacagawea could come along to interpret the Shoshone language.  Sacagawea was pregnant at 16.  Eight weeks before Lewis and Clark, Sacagawea gave birth to a son named Jean Baptist Charbonneau.  Jean Baptist was more often called "Pomp" or "Pompy."  When Sacagawea first met Lewis and Clark this is what she told the reporter, "I knew that first day...when I first saw Lewis and Clark...that I would die at any time to save their lives...and I knew that their lives were in danger right there in Dakota."  
     Sacagawea and several other men were traveling in a boat when it almost capsize in a gale.  And it was she, according to the 1951 book Makers of the Americas, who "caught and saved many of the valuable supplies and surveying instruments as they washed overboard." Or as a different reporter wrote it, "She sat calmly in the stern and rescued most of the equipment as it floated past on the foaming water.  Then, the frail Indian girl only 110 pounds...dove into the water and brought up the few remaining pieces of vital equipment and instruments.  Sacagawea's legendary strength, wisdom and love for the white leaders was beginning to unfold.                                                                         
     The white certainly captured the very real mutual admiration sociality that Sacagawea had with the tow captains.  Clark called her "Janey" and he would name a prominent rock formation, Pompey's Pillar, after her baby boy.  They had got along very well.
     Sacagawea became sick in the spring of 1805.  Lewis expressed concern for her in his journal.  He was also concerned about the expedition, since she was "our only dependence for a friendly negotiation with the Snake [Shoshone] Indians on whom we depend for horses to assist us in our portage from the Missouri to the Columbia River." 
     Sacagawea assured Lewis and Clark that the Shoshones, were somewhere nearby.  Indeed  Lewis came across a Shoshone warrior in early August, but the Indian bolted when the captain tried to say something in Shoshone that Sacagawea had been teaching him.  A day later they came across three terrified Shoshone woman who eventually led them toward the Shoshone camp after Lewis gave them trinkets and calmed them down.  According to Lewis "bothe parties now advanced and we wer all carresed and besmeared with their grease and paint till I was heartily tired of the national hug."  "After much hugging and