Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-11-19
Sacajawea the Indian Woman of Mandan
Who Led Lewis and Clarke to the Coast,
Should Rank Above All Other Characters

and dried them in the sun, and the
party went on its way again.
Brother Shcshone Chief. T.
One of her brothers was q ShosEone
chief, and when they met him. near
the junction Of the Beaverhead river
and Horse Prairie creek, she got
horses from him and provisions. The
expedition had no motto when it left
the East, but long before it reached
the Pacific il must have evolved one,
and it was probably this: 'Sacaja-
wea will provide j. 3. a.,.
When the men were sick from
fatigue or exposure, she nursed them
and made potent brews Of herbs and
plants, which made them well again.
And whenever there was trouble be-
tween the explorers and the men OF
the Indian villages through which
they passed, Sacajawea stepped III
and made them know each other bet
ter and be friends.
Guided Them.
She had been captured by the Black
feet tribe nearly five years before she
led the expedition to the West, and
had been taken to Mandan. After a
few moons she was sold to- ChabOn-
eau, the French trader, who married
her The explorers met Chaboneau
when they stopped at The Mandan vii
laga, after they had passed through
what is Council Bluffs now, because
Of the council the Indians held then,
and had encountered the Sioux IN
dams. They asked him to be their
guide. In the spring Of 1905 they
started, with the woman and smai
Baptiste. They carried their boats
and baggage over p0rtages and Went
down the Falls of Missouri in canoes
where the descent is 1862 feet in six
teen miles and one pitch in itself is
9S feet
Lewis left some of his men in the
canoes while he went with small
party to explore the country, and per
hapS rSacajaWea stayed to guide the
boats and perhaps she went to point
ont d trail through the Wilderness. In
August they all met again and went
on horseback using horses which she
had borrowed from her brOthe: and
friends along the way. 1t was on the
Pacific slope OF the Rockies that food
was scarcast, that the portable soup
which had been saved for just such
Il time had to be used, and that all OF
SacajaWea's ingenuity was called up
on to find food somewhere and keep
the men alive and contented, which
she did.
Didn't Neglect Baptiste.
At the foot Of the mountains, the
Flat Head Indians gave them more
canoes, and they floated for hundreds
OF, miles on the Columbia river, be-
tween the banks of the high prairie
land. They passed the Cascade Noun
tains and came within sight Of the
ocean, and all the food was elk flesh
On the way back the party divided
and Sacajawea came With those who
| followed the old trail back to the
, Mandan village.
Nobody knows, except Sacajawea,
who died many years ago at Fort
| Washable, Wyo., how Baptiste was
kept alive through all those rocky
trails and river whirlpools, and with
M food to eat but animal flesh and
berries, but some way it was done
Two of the other monuments which
have been made for Sacajawea are
those at st. Louis. erected during the
Worlds Fair, and in the municipal
park in Portland. And with all these
ways of remembering her, she ought
to be remembered and thought of
much more quickly than either POGO
hontas, or Minnehaha. who never
even was; for she was the only one
OF them all who took with her on her
jaunts a small siX-waeks old papoose,
and she vas the very first American
woman to demonstrate that public
Life does not make a woman quite
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