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My name is Sacagawea. Meriwether Louis and William Clark invited me to go on an expedition with them and some other white men after hiring my husband as an interpreter. They tried to express to me the importance of my being there. They said I was a big help and they thanked me.
I entered the expedition at Fort Mandan where my husband Charbonneau, was hired as an interpreter. He was a very abusive husband. Many times, he slapped me for doing something good. It was common that he would slap me across the face whenever he became jealous of me.
It came to be that my relationship with the Shoshone chief was helpful in negotiating with the Shoshone tribe in helping the corpse of discovery get horses to travel. The Shoshone people wanted to trade their horses for our guns. Therefore, I had to assure my brother, the chief, that we would send them some later.
During the entire journey, I had to carry my beautiful son Jean-Baptiste on my back. This was no easy task because he was a......

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