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[1] also spelled sakakawea or sacajawea Read here to learn more about sacagawea. Sacagawea was an interpreter and guide for meriwether lewis and william clark’s expedition westward from the mississippi river to the pacific coast Though spelled numerous ways in the journals of expedition members, sacagawea is generally believed to be a hidatsa name (sacaga means “bird” and wea means “woman”) In that case, the third syllable starts with a hard g, as there is no. Also called the corps of discovery, the expedition traveled from the northern plains through the rocky. Sacagawea was a shoshone interpreter best known for being the only woman on the lewis and clark expedition into the american west. Sacagawea is one of the most recognizable names in american history Sacagawea spoke both shoshone and hidatsa We know that she grew up with shoshone people near what is now the montana/idaho border, and that, at the age of twelve, she was captured by hidatsa people. Sacagawea’s people were western shoshones who lived in the present lemhi river valley, in idaho.) the story handed down among the wind river shoshones is that sacagawea adopted an eastern shoshone man named bazil, as her son, and in her later years moved to live with him in wyoming. Often remembered merely for guiding lewis and clark, sacagawea’s story is far more complex Discover the deeper story behind the life of this shoshone woman—beyond the expedition.