The Idaho recorder., 1922-05-12
DESCENDANTS OF
SACAJAWEA FOUND

Ia L. Packard, state regent of the
Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton, the Twin Falls chapter hopes in
the near future to establish the iden-
tity of two young girls who are at
tending school within 10 miles of
Twin Falls. They are believed TO be
the great, great grandchildren of Sac
ajawea, the famous bird woman, who
with her husband, Toussaint Char
boneau and her baby son, led the
Lewis and Clark expedition across the
continent to the Pacific coast.
To Finance Investigation.
Some cursory investigation of the
claim of these girls has led Mrs.
Packard to believe their claim is Il
genuine one and the Twin Falls chap
ter has voted to sponsor and finance
complete investigation, which is al
ready under way. The grandmother
OF the girls is now living in Utah and
efforts to prove that she is the daugh-
! ter of Batiste, Sacajawea's son will be
r1ade.
Mrs. Packard has been an industri-
Gus student of Indian history, its leg
ends and traditions, and from the
! facts that she has assembled it ap-
pears entirely reasonable that she is
near being able to locate what descen-
| dants of this remarkable Indian wo-
man there are now living. She had
! hut one chill as the result of her
union with Touissant Charboneau, a
/ French Canadian who obtained her
! from an Indian chief, Red Arrow, in q
gambling game. After losing every
! thing else he was asked by Charbon-
eau to bet his spotted horse, but he
refused. Charboneau is said to have
exclaimed: 81 will give YOU chance
to get meat for your children. | will
bet you my fast buffalo horse against
your two Snake captives (Sacaiawea
and Otter woman.)
Bet Women and Lost.
Red Arrow agreed in spite of the
cries of the two women captives, who
promised anything rather than have
to go with the Frenchman. Char
boneau won and then Red Arrow il
said to have offered to bet his Il
horses against them, to try to ge'
them back, but Charboneau refused
takeing them with him.
When Sacajawe reached her own
people, the Shoshones, from whom sh'
had been taken captive by the enem!
tribe known as Earth House, year
before, with her son, Batiste, and he
husband. she decided to remain witt
| her own people. Her husband rcceiV
ed $500.33 for his services as guide
7 but Saeaiawea received no compensa
, ton and yet history says she prevent
ed her own husband from turnin
, traitor to the explorers several time
! and she was able to "call of" raj
, on the explorers which hal been pre-
r viously arranged by her own people
= before she reached them. They di
= sent word to other tribes TO join ther
, in killing the members of the exped
| ton.
Boy Sent TO 81. Louis.
: The boy, Batiste, was later give
| several years schooling in st. Loui
= 10y Mr.. Clark. Sacajawea also adopt
ed her dead sisters boy, several year
Batiste's senior, who was named Ba
zil.
Inquiry into the history of Sacs
f jawea at the time of the st. Lou
/ fair, when special recognition wa
b, given to her through statue erecte
. TO her memory, il was learned ths
she died on the Shoshone reservatio
= in Wyoming, April 8, 1884 at the az
r Of 100 years. The records say ths
4 she was illiterate but spoke Frencl
= as did her two sons.
According to DR.. Grace Riehmor
f Hebard, librarian of the University {
T. Wyoming, who has made specii
a study Of Sacajawea, the descendant
; Of BAIL scorned the idea of havin
n any French blood in them and claii
n only the blue blood of the America
Indian. The descendants of Batisi
k look like mixed blood and act as sue
e They have acted as guides in Garlic
d days and as United States police la
G er, intermixing with whites and Mex
cans.
J. At the state meeting Of the d.
l. X. at Twin Falls last month, il ";
:, decided TO place a bronze marker {
n a granite boulder at the old Spauldir
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