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Sacagawea
January 1, 1788 – December 20, 1812
Kenel, South Dakota
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Sacagawea died on December 20, 1812, at Fort Manuel, near present-day Kenel, South Dakota, according to the most widely accepted contemporary record. She was about twenty-four. Born around 1788 among the Lemhi Shoshone, she was taken as a girl, later joined the Lewis and Clark expedition with Toussaint Charbonneau, and interpreted, identified plants and passes, and traveled with an infant son to the Pacific and back.
A later oral tradition among some Eastern Shoshone holds that she lived into old age. This page follows the 1812 fort journal. Either way, the journey is documented. This memorial names Kenel, the Missouri River country of the recorded death.
The child, Jean Baptiste, lived to be buried in Oregon.
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The 1812 record places her death at Fort Manuel. Some Shoshone tradition holds a later grave at Fort Washakie, Wyoming. Birth year about 1788.