37 - Idaho, Sacagawea
Sacagawea brought white people through her lands to our new home. My home. The land that I grew up in (Richland, WA), studied (St. Louis, MO), worked (Astoria, OR) and explored forever was the Lewis and Clark Expedition. And as they traveled the terrain of North Dakota westward, mapping and charting the new American lands, she led them. Idaho was the 30th state to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment 100 years ago today on February 11, 1920. Sacagawea was daughter to the Shoshone chief, and became the only woman on the Lewis and Clark expedition. Her name translates to “bird woman” or “boat puller”. Kidnapped from her Shoshone tribe as a child by the Hidatsa Indians, Sacagawea was sold to a French-Canadian trapper, Toussaint Charbonneau, to be one of his wives at her age of twelve. He brought her to the upper Missouri River in North Dakota area. In 1804, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark entered the area on their “Corps of Discovery” to explore the new western lands and in search...