why was sacajwea picked from the other shoshana women for the lewis and clark expedition?
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She was married to a French fur trader who joined the expedition.  That is why she went along on the expedition.
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There was a large bird said to travel along the front edge of storms.  The Mississippi people told tales that came down thur other tribes.  Also there were early white settlers that told of a large bird that would carry away sheep and other livestock.  A southern tribe tells a story of large birds that would carry children off and how the warriors went and killed them all to protect their families
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here are a few links for you to look at:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Lewis_and_Clark_Expedition\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_and_Clark
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Judges 21:6-21  And the people of Israel had compassion for Benjamin their brother and said, "One tribe is cut off from Israel this day.  (7)  What shall we do for wives for those who are left, since we have sworn by the LORD that we will not give them any of our daughters for wives?"  (8)  And they said, "What one is there of the tribes of Israel that did not come up to the LORD to Mizpah?" And behold, no one had come to the camp from Jabesh-gilead, to the assembly.  (9)  For when the people were mustered, behold, not one of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead was there.  (10)  So the congregation sent 12,000 of their bravest men there and commanded them, "Go and strike the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword; also the women and the little ones.  (11)  This is what you shall do: every male and every woman that has lain with a male you shall devote to destruction."  (12)  And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead 400 young virgins who had not known a man by lying with him, and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.  (13)  Then the whole congregation sent word to the people of Benjamin who were at the rock of Rimmon and proclaimed peace to them.  (14)  And Benjamin returned at that time. And they gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh-gilead, but they were not enough for them.  (15)  And the people had compassion on Benjamin because the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.  (16)  Then the elders of the congregation said, "What shall we do for wives for those who are left, since the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?"  (17)  And they said, "There must be an inheritance for the survivors of Benjamin, that a tribe not be blotted out from Israel.  (18)  Yet we cannot give them wives from our daughters." For the people of Israel had sworn, "Cursed be he who gives a wife to Benjamin."  (19)  So they said, "Behold, there is the yearly feast of the LORD at Shiloh, which is north of Bethel, on the east of the highway that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and south of Lebonah."  (20)  And they commanded the people of Benjamin, saying, "Go and lie in ambush in the vineyards  (21)  and watch. If the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in the dances, then come out of the vineyards and snatch each man his wife from the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.
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Lewis and Clark traveled over 8,000 miles in less than 2 1/2 years, losing only one member of their party, at a total cost to the taxpayer of $40,000.\n\nThe Importance Of The Expedition\nThe results and accomplishments of the Lewis and Clark expedition were extensive. It altered the imperial struggle for the control of North America, particularity in the Pacific northwest, by strengthening the U.S. claim to the areas now including the states of Oregon and Washington. Lewis and Clark achieved an impressive record of peaceful cooperation with the Indians and generated American interest in the fur trade. This had a far reaching effect, since it led to further exploration and commercial exploitation of the West. Lewis and Clark added to geographic knowledge by determining the true course of the Upper Missouri and its major tributaries, and producing important maps of these areas. They forever destroyed the dream of a Northwest Passage, but proved the success of overland travel to the Pacific. The expedition compiled the first general survey of life and material culture of the Native American tribes they encountered. \n\nLewis and Clark made significant additions to the zoological and botanical knowledge of the continent, providing the first scientific descriptions of many new species of animals, including the grizzly bear, prairie dog, pronghorn antelope, and mountain goat. They made the first attempt at a systematic record of the meteorology of the West, and less successfully attempted to determine the latitude and longitude of significant geographical points. \n\nLewis and Clark traveled over 8,000 miles in less than 2 1/2 years, losing only one member of their party, at a total cost to the taxpayer of $40,000. By any measure of scientific exploration, the Lewis and Clark expedition was phenomenally successful in terms of accomplishing its stated goals, expanding human knowledge, and spurring further curiosity and wonder about the vast American West.
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Could be the question is about the Iroquois league.  The five are: the Mohawks, the Oneidas, the Onondagas, the Cayugas, and the Senecas.
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There is no strong proof that woman was sent as a prophet. But some women in religion's history have been considered highly respectible, such as Asia (Pharoah’s wife), Hawaa (Eve, Prophet Adam’s wife), Sarah (Prophet Ibrahim’s wife),Yuhanz (Prophet Moses’ mother), Maryam (Mary, Jesus's mother), Khadija (Muhammad's first wife).
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I've known both men and women named Cheyenne.  Since it was (and is) an Indian tribe, as well as a state capitol, it would make a great street name, and I am sure it IS a street name somewhere.  If the ghost is a girl you could take it one step further and make the street name Sioux and make the ghost's name Sue...
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Lewis and Clark found the animals between 1804 and 1806.  They sent that information and information about indian tribes to President Jefferson.
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On the morning of December 29, 1890, the Sioux chief Big Foot and some 350 of his followers camped on the banks of Wounded Knee creek. Surrounding their camp was a force of U.S. troops charged with the responsibility of arresting Big Foot and disarming his warriors. The scene was tense. \n\nThe once proud Sioux found their free-roaming life destroyed, the buffalo gone, themselves confined to reservations dependent on Indian Agents for their existence. In a desperate attempt to return to the days of their glory, many sought salvation in a new mysticism preached by a Paiute shaman called Wovoka. Emissaries from the Sioux in South Dakota traveled to Nevada to hear his words. Wovoka called himself the Messiah and prophesied that the dead would soon join the living in a world in which the Indians could live in the old way surrounded by plentiful game. A tidal wave of new soil would cover the earth, bury the whites, and restore the prairie. To hasten the event, the Indians were to dance the Ghost Dance. Many dancers wore brightly colored shirts emblazoned with images of eagles and buffaloes. These "Ghost Shirts" they believed would protect them from the bluecoats' bullets. During the fall of 1890, the Ghost Dance spread through the Sioux villages of the Dakota reservations, revitalizing the Indians and bringing fear to the whites. A desperate Indian Agent at Pine Ridge wired his superiors in Washington, "Indians are dancing in the snow and are wild and crazy....We need protection and we need it now. The leaders should be arrested and confined at some military post until the matter is quieted, and this should be done now." The order went out to arrest Chief Sitting Bull at the Standing Rock Reservation. Sitting Bull was killed in the attempt on December 15. Chief Big Foot was next on the list. \n\nWhen he heard of Sitting Bull's death, Big Foot led his people south to seek protection at the Pine Ridge Reservation. The army intercepted the band on December 28 and brought them to the edge of the Wounded Knee to camp. The next morning the chief, racked with pneumonia and dying, sat among his warriors and powwowed with the army officers. Suddenly the sound of a shot pierced the early morning gloom. Within seconds the charged atmosphere erupted as Indian braves scurried to retrieve their discarded rifles and troopers fired volley after volley into the Sioux camp. From the heights above, the army's Hotchkiss guns raked the Indian teepees with grapeshot. Clouds of gun smoke filled the air as men, women and children scrambled for their lives. Many ran for a ravine next to the camp only to be cut down in a withering cross fire. \n\nWhen the smoke cleared and the shooting stopped, approximately 300 Sioux were dead, Big Foot among them. Twenty-five soldiers lost their lives. As the remaining troopers began the grim task of removing the dead, a blizzard swept in from the North. A few days later they returned to complete the job. Scattered fighting continued, but the massacre at Wounded Knee effectively squelched the Ghost Dance movement and ended the Indian Wars.
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Native Americans tribe names are as numerous as sand on the beach. I think you're asking probably, who named them "Indians." I imagine that would be Columbus who thought he ended up in India and assumed those he met were Indians. Various tribe names as we know them today are probably whatever we could repeat as white settlers. Im sure if you ask an Indian their tribe name may be different than what we commonly know them as. Like the Anasazi, if I remember right, the call themselves someting different, Anasazi is a name the whites gave them because thats what they heard their enemies call them.
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Deborah Sampson, born in Plympton, Massachusetts (originally called Winnetuxet) on a wintry day - December 17, 1760 - as the oldest of three daughters and three sons of Jonathan and Deborah Sampson, was the first known American woman to impersonate a man in order to join the army and take part in combat. Deborah's ancestral line descends down from Plymouth Colony Governor William Bradford of the Mayflower through Governor Bradford's son Joseph Bradford and Jael Hobart, Elisha Bradford and Bathsheba LeBrocke.\n\nLucy Freeman and Alma Bond, Ph. D., in their book America's First Woman Warrior, describes Deborah's grandmother, Bathsheba (LeBrocke) Bradford as "a young French woman of beauty and elegance" and "was to have an innovative influence on her life and subsequent choice of career." Of this influence on Deborah's life, they further write [America's First Woman Warrior, Lucy Freeman and Alma Bond, Paragon House 1992, p. 70]:\n\n"Deborah's grandmother, the spirited Bathsheba, was very close to her daughter Deborah, often visited her grandchildren in Plympton. She spoiled young Deborah outrageously, according to Deborah's mother, as Deborah, with her bright mind and warm, affectionate nature, became Bathsheba's favorite. Deborah remembered her grandmother telling her many times in her French accent the inspiring story of the heroine of France, Joan of Arc, the Maid of Orleans who in a pair of breeches led the French army to victory over the British. She was burned at the stake for her bravery because she insisted she was responsible only to God and not to the hypocritical rulers of the church."\n\nThis close relationship with her grandmother, Bathsheba (LeBrocke) Bradford, no doubt, may have had a profound influence later in Deborah's decision to enlist disguised as a man and serve with the Massachusetts Troops in the Revolutionary War. She was also a great granddaughter of one of Plympton's first settlers, Isaac Sampson. Isaac had sailed from Leyden, Holland in 1629 - his brother Henry Sampson having sailed over on the Mayflower.\n\nLucy Freeman and Alma Bond [America's First Woman Warrior, Paragon House 1992, p. 87] further write: "Deborah, in a sense, was born to war. She had listened to many a conversation between her mother and grandmother about how the war had affected the Bradfords. Governor Bradford's son, William, commander of the Plymouth forces in King Phillip's War, was hit at the thy by a musket ball, which he carried the rest of his life." Deborah Sampson's mother's sister, Hannah Bradford, and her spouse Joshua Bradford had both been killed and scalped on 22 May 1758 in the Indian attack on Meduncook (Friendship), Maine. I'm told that, according to local history, Chief Moxus led the attack. Joshua, grinding corn outside early that morning, did not hear the warning shots. Having saved the life of the Chief when he was drowning near the Bradford house, because of the gratitude the Chief had expressed, Joshua did not fear the local Indians and had not moved his family inside the Fort as his neighbors had. At least two of the their children were captured and taken into Canada where they were held captive until Quebec was taken by Gen. Wolf and they returned home. One of the daughters is said to have been rescued by one of the soldiers from the Fort after she received a vicious wound in the attack - supposedly severed ribs from her spine. Quite possibly my 5th Great Grandmother Hannah Bradford and the rest of the Bradford children were inside the Fort when the attack occurred about half an hour past sunrise and thus spared their lives, however, I have not seen any primary source documentation specifically stating whether they were inside the Fort or inside the Bradford house when the attack occurred. The attack was reported by a whaleboat coming up from Meduncook and the original report is recorded in the Bosto
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There was Indians all through there...over fifty tribes in the area with 30,000 indians. They built mounds, too...\nHere is a long report on native life in Georgia...\nhttp://www.valdostamuseum.org/hamsmith/location.html
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1.  Maacah: 2 Chron. 11:20 - "And after her he took Maacah the daughter of Absalom, and she bore him Abijah, Attai, Ziza, and Shelomith."\n   2. Micaiah: 2 Chron. 13:2 - "He reigned three years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Micaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. And there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam."\n\n    Maacah and Micaiah are 2 different spellings for the same name.
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They are named after North American Indian tribes
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OMG, I can't believe someone actually said the Cherokee were Plains hunters!!!!  These are the Plains nomadic hunting tribes:  Assiniboine, Sioux, Blackfeet, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Plains Apache, Kiowa, Kiowa Apache, Comanche, Pawnee.  There were a couple of peripheral groups that occasionally wandered onto the Plains to supplement their crops, but the aforementioned are the fully nomadic groups after the introduction of the horse.  There were also mountain groups who were nomadic hunters as well, but these were the plains tribes
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Deborah, from Judges.\n\nshe was strong, smart, led a country (which shows God doens't mind women being in charge) still submitted to authority and was well respected.\n\nI have this vision of her being a redhead.