Dr Margaret Huettl
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 25 Jun
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She died.
There's a very brief mention of it.
But there are other stories that her life lasted much longer.
Both the Shoshone and the Hadatsa have oral traditions that she lived to be in her 80s.
On the Shoshone Reservation, there is a grave that is supposed to be Sacagawea's grave, where they say she lived out the rest of her years with the Shoshone people and has had other children and has descendants.
The Hadassah say the same thing, that she lived to be in her 80s, had at least three more daughters, and has living descendants to this day.
And to be clear, these stories...
You find documented examples of these oral traditions that say that her life was much longer than that two-year Lewis and Clark trip.
There are examples of these oral traditions being told to anthropologists and others in the late 19th century.
They're told for more than 100 years, but they just never make it into the written records.
Right.
Yes.
Yep.
And died in her grandson's arms.
Yeah, pretty much every important era in American history, there he is.
Well, and my favorite detail about Jean-Baptiste, too, is that he apparently loved quoting Shakespeare.
And I just love to think about this, you know, this like rugged mountain man of a guy out there quoting Shakespeare.
Like it should be in a Hollywood movie somewhere.
From my perspective as someone who works in indigenous studies, I think that the Corps of Discovery should be remembered as an invasion of
Its intended goal was to get the information that the United States needed to take over these lands and these people.
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