The story of Sacagawea that most of us know is incomplete and not entirely correct. The Hidatsa tribe and other tribes have a long oral history that tells a different story of her life, including that ...
In 1800, when she was about 12 years old, Sacagawea was kidnapped by a war party of Hidatsa Indians – enemies of her people, the Shoshones. She was taken from her Rocky Mountain homeland, located in ...
A growing body of evidence suggests she might have survived into old age — which would entirely change the story of America’s most iconic Native forebear. Credit...Illustration by Dadu Shin Supported ...