Craig Fehrman
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 1 Jun
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We know from Clark's entries that Sacagawea was fluent in sign language.
Yeah.
And especially when you think about these are just like human beings who want to be understood by each other.
They could really cover almost everything they needed to with sign language.
So I can't say this for sure, but I can say this 98% for sure that Sacagawea used sign language to tell her life story to John Ordway the first day.
And then the second day when Clark comes back, when Charbonneau's there, when Lewis is there, she tells the story again.
And so her story shows up a couple times in the journals.
And each time her story is a little different, like what year was she captured.
So this is even the stuff we know for sure, we don't know for sure.
Because like was Sacagawea captured in 1800 or 1799?
I don't know.
But all this to say that it's important to read the journals carefully because then what you're getting is Sacagawea is telling her story herself.
Like, if she is using sign language to do this, this is not her husband slash owner saying, here's Sacagawea's story.
And I think this is so important for the current discussion.
Because right now, like, in the journals, Lewis and Clark say Sacagawea is Shoshone.
Most historians have agreed with that.
I'm almost home.
Yeah, for sure.
And that's, that's again, how do we know these things about Sacagawea?
Cause Lewis and Clark wrote it down.
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