Today is: Sacagawea Day
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Sacagawea (also spelled Sacajawea and Sakakawea) is believed to have died on today's date in 1812, and today we honor her contributions and courage. The daughter of a Shoshone chief, and part of the Lemhi band of the Shoshone tribe, she was born in May 1788 in the Lemhi Valley, near the Salmon River and the Rocky Mountains, in present-day Lemhi County, Idaho.
She joined the Corps of Discovery Expedition. Led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, the expedition came on the heels of the 1803 Louisiana Purchase, where Thomas Jefferson purchased a vast amount of land from France, almost doubling the size of the United States.
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