Sacagawea: A Life Beyond the Expedition
100 Lives That Shaped the World · Episode 10
- Historical Biographies
- 38 min
- Ages 12–99
- 10 chapters
About this audiobook
A source-aware biography of Sacagawea that centers her Shoshone and Hidatsa contexts, documented contributions to the Lewis and Clark expedition, constrained choices, uncertain later life, and transformation into a national symbol.
Why it's worth a listen
It replaces the lone guide legend with a more human account of interpretation, diplomacy, motherhood, Indigenous knowledge, colonial expansion, and the limits of expedition journals.
A question to keep
What do the expedition journals reveal about Sacagawea's work—and what do they leave unknown about her own life and choices?
Chapters
- Saving What the River Took
- Before the Expedition's Record
- Capture, Displacement, and Marriage
- Winter at the Knife River Villages
- Not the Expedition's Lone Guide
- Returning to Shoshone Country
- Across Many Indigenous Homelands
- The Journey Back
- Two Endings, Neither Fully Settled
- From Person to National Symbol