Craig Fehrman
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And so when I, you know, the Klatsop who we've been talking about, they enslaved people.
The Shoshone enslaved people when they were at their kind of most powerful.
The Hadatsa enslaved people too.
So there are lots of good scholarship and then stories in the journals of talking about how Native people would enslave women.
But slavery can also be different in different circumstances.
And so where things get really ugly is when somebody like Charbonneau gets involved because these academics have written about how Native people would enslave young women from other nations and then sell them to fur traders.
So I went back and looked at documents where fur traders are like trying to provide collateral for new merchandise to then trade for fur.
And like a fur trader will write, you know, my collateral is the little girl I own.
really fucked up stuff.
And, and like, let's remember Sacagawea is 13, 14, 15.
She is owned by this guy.
He beats her.
We know that from the journal.
She has his child, right?
She's impregnated by him.
Yeah.
It's, it's a really dark story.
And so when I was writing about it, using that kind of scholarship to see her, not just as sort of the plucky tour guide, who's in all these statues, but also seeing her as somebody who had a really tough life,
But then that also, I think, makes her more inspiring that she had to go through all this.
She was taken away from her people.
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