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Toussaint Charbonneau (March 20, 1767 – August 12, 1843) was a French Canadian explorer, fur trapper and merchant who is best known for his role in the Lewis and Clark Expedition as the husband of Sacagawea.
Jean Baptiste Charbonneau was born to Sacagawea, a Shoshone, and her husband, the French Canadian trapper Toussaint Charbonneau, in early 1805 at Fort Mandan in North Dakota. This was during the Lewis and Clark Expedition, which wintered there in 1804–05. The senior Charbonneau had been hired by the expedition as an interpreter and, learning ...
Toussaint Charbonneau and Sacagawea Charbonneau was either sold or given Sacagawea, who was born around 1788, near Lemhi, Idaho . The daughter of a Shoshone chief, she was kidnapped by the Hidatsa and sold into slavery to the Mandan , who passed her on to Charbonneau, who made her his wife.
Toussaint Charbonneau (m. 1812–1814?) Otter Woman (born 1786–1788, died before 1814) was a Shoshone woman who was the wife of Smoked Lodge. Otter Woman was likely kidnapped by the Hidatsa and purchased by Toussaint Charbonneau , who is best known as the husband of Sacagawea .
Sacagawea (/ ˌ s æ k ə dʒ ə ˈ w iː ə / SAK-ə-jə-WEE-ə or / s ə ˌ k ɒ ɡ ə ˈ w eɪ ə / sə-KOG-ə-WAY-ə; [1] also spelled Sakakawea or Sacajawea; May c. 1788 – December 20, 1812) [2] [3] [4] was a Lemhi Shoshone woman who, in her teens, helped the Lewis and Clark Expedition in achieving their chartered mission objectives by exploring the Louisiana Territory.
Toussaint Charbonneau, a French fur trader living with the Mandans, is hired as an interpreter. One of Charbonneau's wives, a pregnant 16-year-old Lemhi Shoshone named Sacagawea, is also hired. [78] [79] December 24: Fort Mandan is completed. [80] December 25: The Corps celebrates Christmas with special food, rum and dancing. [81]
Clark also served as a guardian to Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, the son of Sacagawea and Toussaint Charbonneau. [citation needed] Clark was a habitually cruel enslaver. He repeatedly refused requests from York to live in Louisville with his family. Clark regularly whipped the people he enslaved, bragging about it in letters to his brother.
Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau, born on the Lewis and Clark Expedition, depicted on a US$1 coin; Toussaint Charbonneau, member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition; François Chouteau (1797–1838), first white settlers of Kansas City, Missouri; René Auguste Chouteau (1749–1829), trader with American Indians; founder of and influential figure in ...