This week’s Historical Ovi Tweet features one of my all-time favourite historical characters, Sacagawea.
Sacagawea was the Native American (Shoshone) woman who – at least according to mythology – accompanied and, at times, guided the Lewis & Clark Expedition when they travelled from North Dakota to the Pacific Ocean between 1804 and 1806. The trip was around 8000 kilometres long (i.e. damn long!). Sacagawea was valuable to the Expedition not only because of her knowledge of Shoshone trails, but also for her translation skills, which proved crucial when Lewis & Clark needed to, for example, trade with the Shoshone for horses.
Sacagawea – who, by the way, made the entire Expedition with her son, Jean-Baptiste, on her back – was considered a valuable member of the party and was even given a full vote in deciding where to spend the winter of 1805-06. It’s no wonder, then, that she has had a river, a lake and a mountain named after her plus an American dollar coin that has her face on it! (Source)
So, with this in mind (and the fact that we really wanted to feature Maps this week), we decided to give this extraordinary woman an honorary Historical Ovi Tweet! Enjoy!
Edit: Just heard that our friends @ HistoricalTweets.com picked up Sacagawea’s tweet on their blog, check it out!!
superb!!!!!
Oh, now I finally got it… guess I’m a little bit slow… : )
i really appreciate your humour!
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for example,
mobile9.com.it has 8 billion free downloads for the symbian platform because u could upload apps for free.
i really think u should consider this opinion so that u could compete with apple’s app store
regards
rohan
Love that this blog has a feminine side! Funny to see Sacagawea is so famous in Finland. I’m originally from St. Louis, MO, so she is our local hero!
@Suzy Oge: Hey, thanks for noticing! It’s been my master plan all along to bring a different voice/POV into the Blog…
I don’t know how famous Sacagawea is in Finland in general, though, but at least to me she’s up there with our other Tweeting feminist hero, Virginia Woolf!
Remember to stay tuned, I still have a couple of fierce ladies from the pages of history stopping by to Tweet in the next weeks…
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Hi! Thanks a bunch for the info. I’ve been digging around looking some info up for school, but there is so much out there. Yahoo lead me here – good for you i guess! Keep up the good work.