Craig Fehrman

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The MeatEater Podcast · Ep. 883: A New History of Lewis and Clark · 1 Jun 2026 podcast

We just have to read it from her point of view and understand that's not just an important landmark for Lewis and Clark.

That's a way to understand Sacagawea's life and like what the landscape meant to her.

So the debate right now is, is Sacagawea Shoshone or was she Hadassah?

The Hadassah people have put together a book, and it's a really valuable book because remember, there are a few years after she gets captured or enslaved where she's living with the Hadassah.

So I relied on the book to understand those years because that's like, how did the Hadassah people see her?

What kind of oral traditions have they preserved about her?

Now, in my book, I'm always very careful if something's coming from oral tradition to signpost that and say, you know, according to Hadassah tradition.

But still, the book has real value.

And it also – the book talks about the debate about what happened to Sacagawea after the expedition.

When did she die?

I honestly do not know when she died.

Like I don't have an opinion on that question.

But where was she born?

Who did she identify with?

I think the evidence is still overwhelming that it was Shoshone.

And the reason – the new kind of angle that I have in my book is like when we ignore this, when we try to say maybe she wasn't Shoshone, we're not just silencing Lewis and Clark.

We're silencing her.

Because I think the evidence, if you read it carefully, is very clear that she told her story herself through sign language to the other enlisted soldiers.

And so that story of being born Shoshone and being captured, like it's a really dramatic and traumatic story.

But I also think it's her story and she was explaining it.

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