Who was Sacagawea? She was the wife of a guard who was hired to travel with Lewis and Clark. She was an interpreter who was hired to travel with Lewis and Clark. She was a prisoner on the expedition. She was the wife of an interpreter who was hired to travel with Lewis and Clark.

Sacagawea was a Lemhi Shoshone woman who, at age 16, met and helped the Lewis and Clark Expedition in achieving their chartered mission objectives by exploring the Louisiana Territory. Sacagawea traveled with the expedition thousands of miles from North Dakota to the Pacific Ocean, helping to establish cultural contacts with Native American populations and contributing to the expedition's knowledge of natural history in different regions.

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