The Role Of Sacagawea's Roll In The Expedition

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To understand sacagawea’s roll in the expedition, when we think about expeditions, especially one that is this long we think of it as this massive journey, of just traveling every day, packing up and moving and going forward and trying to figure out where they were going and how they would get there and what they would eat. Sacagawea played an important role, not as a guide as she’s been mythologized into, but as a person who could read the landscape fairly well. I think she could read rivers. She could read a valley. She had a sense of what the landscape said about direction and where they were going. She had some sense of what could be eaten along the way. Apparently she showed Clark how to dig up onions some. At some point along the