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Sacagawea ~ Sacajawea ~ Sakakawea. The only Native American woman who served as an interpreter and guide for the Lewis and Clark Expedition in 1805 and 1806. As a child, she had been taken by members of the Hidatsa Tribe and lived among them. Later she was sold to a French-Canadian trapper named Toussaint Charbonneau.
Later Life. 1  In 1804, the 'Corps of Discovery', a unit belonging to the United States Army, led by explorers William Clark and Meriwether Lewis, entered the Hidatsa village where Sacagawea lived. 2  The adventurers zeroed in on the Shoshone woman, and her husband, Charbonneau, to be their interpreters and guides.