Craig Fehrman
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So Clark isn't even in the camp.
Charbonneau isn't even.
They have mentioned her, but they've not mentioned her life story.
Okay.
So she's often just shows up as like the Indian woman.
Yep.
And so Clark and Charbonneau and some other people are off on a scout party.
Lewis is like doing his astronomy readings and like thinking about empire.
And so Ordway and the other men are doing the actual hard work of like unloading the canoes, airing out the gear, putting up the tents.
And Sacagawea is doing that hard work too.
And so if you look at it, the story comes up with her first.
And I think it makes a lot of sense.
Again, I use careful language at this part of the book, like probably and almost certainly, because we'll never know for sure, even though we have the journals about this.
But the fact that she told the story to Ordway the day before the captains ever mentioned the story, it makes a lot of sense because they were all working at Three Forks on this physical site.
the river where she was captured.
They're all setting up the camp together.
And also, how did they communicate?
Well, through sign language.
Previous historians have not given enough credit to sign language in this time period.
And we know from other journal entries that John Ordway was fluent in sign language.
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