Sacagawea, ‘Grass Maiden’ (c. 1784–c. 1812)
| Shoshone interpreter and guide. Grass Maiden was sold to a French-Canadian trapper by a group of enemy American Indians. She accompanied her husband on the Lewis and Clark expedition of 1804–06, where she served as an invaluable intermediary between the whites and local Indians. |
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