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Sacagawea Sacagawea, was a Lemhi Shoshone woman who helped Lewis and Clark complete their two year expedition. All the way to the northern plains through the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean and back. Lewis and Clark, probably ran into lots of tribes Sacagawea would have been really helpful because, she could translate and she had a baby, which let tribes know they were traveling in peace. Sacagawea was a highly skilled food gatherer. She used sharp sticks to dig up wild licorice, prairie turnips and wild artichokes that mice had buried for the winter.Some say she was captured according to history.com the Shoshone tribe were enemies of the gun-possessing Hidatsa tribe, who kidnapped Sacagawea during a buffalo hunt. Sacagawea was about

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