Sacagawea - Heroine of the Lewis and Clark Journey 

Omg what a fabulous enjoyable and non-controversial rendition of this amazing and moving story! In its telling, you have allowed us to freely learn about Sacajawea without the distraction of controversial commentary!!! How I miss this kind of pure documentary!!! I am forwarding this to all my family members who have a great love for my country and for this woman. Thank you thank you

I am so appreciative of this content. Thank you for posting this gem of American history. Maybe if people started viewing our ancestors for the brave, courageous, selfless people that they were instead of persecuting them for being imperfect we could actually take pride in our ancestory, become grateful for their sacrifices, and learn from their successes and failures.

My fourth graders just finished reading a biography about Sacagawea and this movie is highly appropriate to show. Excellent resource!!

She is a very special young lady! What I wouldn’t give to have been there with them on this great journey. Meeting all those native people and hanging with her. If only! Great documentary! There should be an accurate film about this journey! She and the men will never be forgotten!

So inspiring. You don't hear enough about her. She needs more credit. There needs to be a documentary about her.

what a magnificent woman she was; the expedition would have failed without her

Thank you. Very interesting lesson in American geography, history, and survival.

Great job! whoever did this, did an amazing job that puts us back in time showing us the thoughts and opinions of all Americans. Sacagawea is a great woman that had a very important job, she translated but kept them alive on many occasions with her interpersonal communication skills.

I am a San Carlos Apache and Pueblo Yaqui from Arizona living in Nevada 👍🏽👍🏽

I have an Indian Scout motorcycle. I named it Sacagewea.

Sacagawea is a legendary figure and a great American. But what we also forget is that she was a teenage girl...

Awesome are the hearts that have gone before us!

Wow, what a tribute to a great lady from one of the most edifying chapters of American history. If the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1803-06 is exemplary in its leadership, quest for knowledge, establishment of friendly relations with natives, ensuring justice and fair play as between his Americans, French guides, Black slave, and different mutually opposed tribes of natives and dedication and meticulousness in maintaining journals, collecting artifacts and specimens of flora and fauna and sending despatches to the US President and last and most importantly of all return safely with minimal loss of lives, Sacgawea as the sole female member of the Expedition was exemplary in her own way in establishing communication links with mutually unrelated tribes, ensuring safety of the Expedition and its members and cargo, providing valuable geographical, ethnological and survival knowledge and lore and in effect becoming the third informal leader of the Expedition. That Clark adopted and provided education to her children after her death speaks a lot about the esteem in which the expedition and its leaders held her and thought fit to honour her memory. Neither US history nor the history of expeditions of different nations into different parts of the world or a vital guidance of a native have many parallels to the Lewis and Clark Expedition. It is a pity that this exceptional expeidition and its leaders and other participants and last but not the least its guide Sacagawea have not been found romantic, picturesque, momentous or remarkable enough for Hollywood to make a movie that would serve as its homage to them all. Hats off to all those who have contributed their efforts, time, knowledge and talents to the making of this splendid documentary on Sacagawea. But for this Expedition and the interest it generated among the political leadership, businessmen, explorers, scientists, artists and writers, fur traders, settlers of the new nation, the US may not have been able to retain the vast territory of the American West as its most adorable part as easily as it gained this territory for a pittance from France. Today, in many ways than one, the American West as a vast land and its people, flora and fauna that the Lewis and Clark Expedition and Sacagawea helped explore and celebrate represents America to the rest of the world and holds many lessons for the world as a whole as to what is to be done and not done with its land, ecology, natives, immigrants, politics, business, science, technology and indeed with the earth as a whole as a precious planet with its uniqueness as the sole abode of life in the vast universe.

That was like 200 years ago.and I feel bad for sacagawea 😢😭

My social studies teacher assigned me to watch this At first i didnt want to, because it was so long, but then i was like, "oh whatever, at least it gives me an excuse to not clean my room." And so i watched it, and it was great!

An excellent overview and flyover of the Corps of Discovery. I was surprised about two matters: 1) That Sacagawea was captured by the Hidatsa on the Snake River, whereas the journals state she was kidnapped on the Jefferson River, just west of Three Forks, MT. 2) That her near death experience was overlooked. During the portage around the "great falls" of the Missouri (June 1805), she (and "Pomp") were part of an excursion with Clark, Charbonneau and York when a fierce and heavy rain storm caused a flash food in the coulee they went to escape the storm. Clark literally shoved her (and the baby) up the hill as the torrent of water flooded the coulee (while Charbonneau was frozen in fear). The captain lost his umbrella and a good compass, but Sacagawea lost all of Pomp's bedding, clothing and mosquito netting (which tortured the child thereafter). Other than the historical error of Sacagawea's capture sight, this is an excellent and brief introduction to the Corps of Discovery's expedition to the Pacific and home. Two thumbs up!

Thoroughly enjoyed this doc about an amazing woman.

Greatest documentary on Sacagawea yet made! First time I've ever seen the L&C Expedition told from her viewpoint, in her own words. Excellent photography, giving this film a real sense of the journey. Maps very helpful, too. Glad to find a doc on this subject that isn't hyperpaced with a jumbled mosaic of unrelated scenes & settings, or that doesn't consist of childish, cartoonish imagery. Although not spoken with Native American inflections or cadences, the Bird Woman's, or "Janey's," voice sounds age-appropriate & is most pleasant to listen to. Terrific film all the way around!

That was beautiful.

I’ve heard that the expedition was in serious trouble when she met her brother in the middle of nowhere after many years! The odds of that must have been unbelievable,apparently she was destined to be part of the expedition.

I seriously doubt that modern man, apart from a few military trained men could endure what those men and Sacajawea endured. For starters they had to pull the boat up river for miles. At one point they ran out of food supplies and survived on candle wax. Their journey was actually incredible, lasting two years! I’m surprised Hollywood never made a movie about it! Incredible!

This was a great documentary. I only wish they would have went farther into what happened to York and Sacagawea’s children. This is probably the greatest adventure ever done in American history. Thank you for posting!

Great narration and visuals..I loved learning more about them all, especially Sacajawea...

Sacagawea is one of the few persons of American history that deserves a statue.

Wow Clark was an amazing guy! He educated Sacagawea's son from age 4 to grown adult ! I am just starting his biography today so these 2 stories are intertwined.....

Don't forget she was kidnapped then a slave to her 'husband' who was already married and who got her pregnant.

Pomp is a relative of mine on my mothers side. Pretty cool.

Anyone here from quarantine for school work.

an awesome video

Came here after watching MSA .

This helps me while studying

Excellent!! Thank you for sharing this!

it's been 15 minutes and i feel this documentary is going to end the next minute

York was never freed. From a Washington Post article: America remained ignorant of Clark’s heinous treatment of York for almost two centuries - until the discovery of Clark’s letters to his brother in 1988.

I like this video

Sacagawea has a beautiful voice

I read the book, her name in Shoshone means water bitd.

Anyone coming from msa's sacagawea story ?

The baby is sooooooooo cute

very good

Why does she sound enthusiastic about being taken captive and then being forced to be a child bride? The narrator’s pleasant tone as she describes atrocities is jarring.

R.i.p ❤🙏🏾

"No! I told you how this had to go down for me to be okay with this!" - Donny Grande, Clark from Lewis & Clark

I think the Hdatsas gave Sacajawea her name "Bird Woman". Didn't horses come into America with the Spanish? Also firearms. Lewis had an airgun which he demonstrated to the Indians. The Southwest Indian Foundation (serves the Navajo, Hopi and Zunis) issues a catalog featuring their products and they offer this dvd for sale (80 min. Long). One book of interest (not in catalog) is by Stephen Ambrose about the Corp of Discovery called "Undaunted Courage". It is fairly comprehensive. When The group got to the Pacific, they saw a dead beached whale. Sacajawea was astounded. I own a portrait of Sacajawea painted by Mark Frederickson. Best I've seen. You can see it by going to "Fine Art America" and entering in search field Sacajawea.

i just watched this entire thing in 2021

Here to learn about bedtime story for my grandchildren.

The biographical paperback is also very good.

I own a copy of Bird Woman by J.W. Schultz, which I trust more than this documentary.

Cool

This is a awesome story but some facts are not right if you go into details maybe not needed. Still awesome to learn. But the details like I am saying they didnt find a coyote. Well they did but they called it prairie wolf. Coyote is a slandered name of the Aztecs translated to Spanish. Riffles? I pretty sure muskets or what is called today muzzleloaders. Maybe flint locks. No mention of the air riffle if that is true? But this is probably not completely needed on her story! Great video and interesting to watch. TY

I am learning so much

I’m still waiting for the remainder of those train rides videos.

That was just a great video!! Thanks to those invoked in creating it and posting it.

It is also interesting to read about Toussaint Charbonneau, husband, and his other wife Otter Woman. Toussaint Charbonneau was not a great guy, but if you think about it, many people living in the wilderness were a bit strange. Still, he was essential to her story.

Charbenneau wasn’t French, he was Canadian!🧐🇨🇦

The US Navy should name a ship in her honor.

What a great documentary..

Wow I’ve never knew

lewis and clark started in st charles mo a small town on the missouri river they did not start in st louis i live in st charles and know about lewis and clark

sacagawea carried a baby on her back all the way to the Pacific Ocean and somewhere that baby thinks he discovered North America

Quick question: How exactly did you come about HER words?

She was sold at twelve to a man traveling with lewis and clark. That poor girl, so heartbreaking.

For what I have heard was that Sacagawea had a best friend named moracco and there was a girl from the other tribe she was jealous of Sacagawea but always made fun of her for have a fear of hights and for not climbing trees then when Sacagawea grew up they were having a party of some sort the girl from the other tribe told Sacagawea to come near the waterfall and when she came she was captured and rest of the story was the same as this

Loved this video! I teach U.S. history to 8th graders and couldn't find another Lewis & Clark video that I've shown before. I stumbled upon this one and am very glad I did. Five stars!

bruh 44 mins... i have to do this for a dang school prez

interesting

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When did genocide sound so inviting and enthusiastic?

at 33:27 the sweet voice tells how Captain Lewis was a healer to the Natives now think about what Medical supply's he had he gave the Mercury he also took it himself which drove him crazy and he was murdered in Tennessee on his way back to Washington DC

O my waaa 😭

I researched sagaweah. She was 16, and pregnant. Her French husband, chabeneau, beat her. He had another wife, called the elder wife who was jealous and also beat her. Caption Clark fell in love with her, Lewis went on to commit suicide. If it wasn't for sagaweah skills, they would never survived or discover the north west passage. Her son was Tecumseh, a great chief who made treaties.

Hi

"But I must not slow them down." That's a joke, right?

Awsome story😆😉

it was good !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Shoshone!

Of course the Lewis and Clark expedition is very inspiring in the US history , but the real discoverers of these pathways to the West have been Monsieur Pierre Gauthier de la Verendrye , his 3 sons , Jean Baptiste , Pierre and François , plus Mr Lajemmerais and his son , also named Jean Baptiste , all of them sent in 1731 with a " commission royale de découverte " ie a letter of expedition signed by the Viscount of Maurepas minister of the king of France . During many years , they settled large relations with native tribes , Sioux , Mandanes (Mandans) , Cris ( Crees) , panis ( Pawnees ) ,Tetons Sioux , Corbeaux (Crows ) , têtes plates ( flat heads ) , pieds noirs (black feet ) et gros ventres , and many others ... they discovered the west of Wyoming , la riviere roche jaune ( Yellowstone ) , and many other places of the west . Their expedition was , 60 years before the one of Mr Lewis and Mr Clark , the real discovery of the Wild West .

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With all gratitude I give my highest compliment to fellow human and humans, Good Job. Good job says it all especially when recognized by good historical record. The good news is exploration into unknown places are still available if we explore and vote just as you find first real democratic vote in human history? I doubt that but it may be the first recorded. The perfect ending. It's funny but I once heard that if you average out a thousand human guesses on how many beans are in the jar that it is always spot on. Just like this documentary forgive my ruminations but it was fun. I hope your next project is who really tore down the wall Ronald Reagan or Michael Gorbachev? But if you do please take my advice and use pseudonyms and claim your from Narnia of another famous Lewis. Wait did I say good job sorry for the rabbits Trail.

i had to watch this for school

I can’t believe that heroine was going to be on the coin of 1 dollar

If we were taught more of our ancestral heritage, And the sacrifices our forbearers made for us, Awesome documentary.

New research identify Sacagawea as Hidatsa and Crow. Read “Our Story of Eagle Woman” published in 2021.

Pure and angled propaganda. Narrator sounds like she would've been happy but i bet she wasn't. However she was an amazing person and should stand statue in every American city.

Hi how you today

So she was 17 or 18 when she was pregnant?!

0:27 yoooo my parents have a lot of those coins :O

Sacajawea is my favorite Harriet Tubman she’s my favorite to😍

who else came because of MSA

I want one.

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Why am i crying 😭

im watching thisfor school i watched it like 3 times and still cant answer these mf questions

Please let me know when you are ready to come over 23:6

She was a full member of the tribe and her young master, who owned her, gave her to a French trader....... I don't get the idea of being a full member of the tribe and yet owned. I don't understand the definition of what/which people could be owned in a tribe. The French trader must have been a really good fellow to receive such a gift..

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She was a translator. Wtf