Sacajawea helped Lewis and Clark on their voyage to the Pacific Ocean and she was well known for being the only Indian-lady to help with the expedition. Sacajawea was born in 1788 in Circa Idaho and later died in South Dakota in 1812, she was the daughter of the Shoshone chief leader ("Sacagawea Biography Explorer (c. 1788–c. 1812"). This shows how she was a very important role back in her original tribe, just like she played a very important role on the voyage. She died at a very young age which was at around 25 years old, she had a family of six in total her parents, her sister, her two brothers, and her ("Sacajawea - Notable Women Ancestors"). At about the age of 12 Sacajawea was kidnapped during a raid from the Hidatsa Indians, one of the foes of the Shoshone and she was then sold to a French-Canadian Trapper named Toussaint Charbonneau who forced her to be one of his many wives. later she became pregnant at 16 years of age ("Sacagawea Biography Explorer (c. 1788–c. 1812"). Sacajawea was separated from her family at a very young age instead of being killed like many of her tribe’s people, because she was royalty. She never had her own will to choose her husband, but she never tried to run away back to her home tribe. She stayed with her husband and was very loyal. She listened enough to go on the expedition along with him. On that expedition she resulted with giving birth to her first son named Jean Baptiste Charbonneau in February of 1805. She carried him on her back the entire time while on the expedition ("Sacagawea Biography Explorer (c. 1788–c. 1812"). The furthest she got on her education level was learning different Indian languages and she was very good with traveling. For she knew the her ways back and around the mountains ("Sacagawea Biography Explorer (c. 1788–c. 1812"). This shows how even though she didn’t go to school she was really good at finding edible plants, she made herself useful to save some supplies from the water as they crossed rivers, and she helped translate ("SACAGAWEA BIOGRAPHY EXPLORER (C. 1788–C. 1812"). Sacajawea is viewed as a great role model in America because she “ played a part in creating America” ("Sacagawea"). Sacajawea’s actions to help Lewis and Clark have helped change the future because if she never did then it could be possible that Thomas Jefferson’s dream to send explorers to the Pacific to find trade would not have came true. And Lewis and Clark could have possible gave up or died on the way out to the Pacific ("Thomas Jefferson and the Lewis and Clark Expedition"). Sacajawea has played a very important role in the past to the discovery of the route to the Pacific Ocean in the Lewis and Clark expedition.