If you know anything at all about Sacagawea, you probably know that she was a guide on the Lewis and Clark Expedition (also known as the Corps of Discovery) to explore the Louisiana Purchase and ...

Editor’s note: November is Native American Heritage Month. First proclaimed by President George H. W. Bush in 1990, it is an opportunity to acknowledge the histories and cultures of Native people ...

While traversing the Columbia River in 1805, the Lewis and Clark expedition encountered members of the Umatilla tribe in present-day Washington. Though William Clark attempted to show that they came ...

It is an image known to every schoolchild: a Shoshone woman carrying a baby on her back through the wilderness. Sacagawea is probably the most memorialized woman in the history of the United States.

Dive into the remarkable journey of Sacagawea and the Lewis and Clark Expedition with this comprehensive digital teaching resource, designed to engage and inspire both teachers and students. This ...

In 1800, when she was about 12 years old, Sacagawea was kidnapped by a war party of Hidatsa Indians – enemies of her people, the Shoshones. She was taken from her Rocky Mountain homeland, located in ...

One of the many amazing things about the Lewis and Clark expedition across what is now the United States in 1803 to examine the Louisiana Purchase was the diversity of the group traveling together for ...

President Donald Trump’s attacks against Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) have been relentless since his campaign began. Trump has called her “Pocahontas,” attempting to use the name as a racial slur ...

Shoshone Indian, right? The woman on the gold dollar? The lady who was with the Lewis and Clark expedition, which was, uh, a long time ago, and went West and found stuff? OK, maybe we don’t know all ...