How Did Sacagawea's Impact On The Expedition Of Lewis And Clark Expedition

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Sacagawea was a Native American explorer that accompanied Lewis and Clark on their expedition.

Sacagawea was a great food gatherer. She used sharp sticks and other materials to get wild licorice, prairie, wild turnips, wild artichoke. While she was on a buffalo hunt and was kidnapped by a war party at the age of 12 and she was taken from the Rocky Mountains then to Idaho and then to Bismarck in North Dakota.

We know that Sacagawea was on the expedition of Lewis and Clark but how did she meet them? Thomas Jefferson made the Louisiana Purchase from France in 1803. Now he had 828,000 square miles of unexplored territory. Now Thomas Jefferson hope to find a Northwest Passage through the vast Wilderness A.K.A a water passage to the Pacific