Entries by Themes Browse curated collections of entries. In the Classroom. Staff and Board. Donate Donors. Federal Tax ID Close modal View Source. Zoom image. Color postcard of the Sacagawea statue at Lewis and Clark Exposition. Courtesy Robert L. Aerial photo of Danner, Oregon, showing Pomp's grave site, Captain William Clark, c. Sacagawea Sacagawea was a member of the Agaideka Lemhi Shoshone, who lived in t…. For the next 16 months and for a total of 5, miles the expedition took him across the Rockies to the Pacific Ocean and back.
During this time Clark grew fond of Pompy and his family and offered to take care of his education and raise him as his own child. In , when Jean Baptiste was 6 years old, Sacagawea and Toussaint Charbonneau moved to Missouri where he took possession of his acres of land he earned for his services as an interpreter with the Corps of Discovery.
His father did not adjust to a life as a farmer and wished to return to the fronteerland. Louis Academy, a Jesuit Catholic School. It was the last time Jean Baptiste would see his mother. Sacagawea died on December He invited him to Europe where he lived for the next 6 years. When a boat she was riding on capsized, she was able to save some of its cargo, including important documents and supplies. She also served as a symbol of peace — a group traveling with a woman and a child were treated with less suspicion than a group of men alone.
Sacagawea also made a miraculous discovery of her own during the trip west. When the corps encountered a group of Shoshone Indians, she soon realized that its leader was actually her brother Cameahwait. It was through her that the expedition was able to buy horses from the Shoshone to cross the Rocky Mountains. Despite this joyous family reunion, Sacagawea remained with the explorers for the trip west. After reaching the Pacific coast in November , Sacagawea was allowed to cast her vote along with the other members of the expedition for where they would build a fort to stay for the winter.
They built Fort Clatsop near present-day Astoria, Oregon, and they remained there until March of the following year. Sacagawea, her husband, and her son remained with the expedition on the return trip east until they reached the Mandan villages. During the journey, Clark had become fond of her son Jean Baptiste, nicknaming him "Pomp" or "Pompey. Once Sacagawea left the expedition, the details of her life become more elusive.
In , it is believed that she and her husband — or just her husband, according to some accounts — traveled with their son to St. Louis to see Clark. Pomp was left in Clark's care. Captain Lewis was not only the leader of the expedition, but also served as the doctor.
Although skeptical, it seemed to work, as Sacajawea gave birth soon after. Two months later, on April 7, , the expedition left Fort Mandan with Sacajawea and Pomp traveling up the Missouri in a pirogue. The expedition would not end for another 17 months when they returned to St. Toussaint Charbonneau, a French-Canadian trapper, had been hired to act as an interpreter but only if he brought his young wife, Sacajawea.
She had been captured by a Hidatsa war party in and taken to their villages where she was later sold to Charbonneau as a slave who later took her as a wife. The child suffered some typical illnesses during the trip but only one of a serious nature, despite times of little food and extreme cold. On the return trip in the spring of , when the expedition was delayed with the Nez Perce until weather moderated and allowed them to cross over the Bitterroot Mountains, young Pomp was quite sick for two and a half weeks.
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