Sacagawea Hero

Imagine being essential to the growth of an entire country but your job was to trek thousands of miles through uncharted territories to find the pacific ocean. All the while Interpretering a Native Americn language, gathering food and caring for your baby. You must do all of these things almost simultaneously for over a year and a half. You would be in the shoes of the heroic Native American woman Sacagawea. So many people see her as a hero because she helped breathe life into the U.S saved the trip to the pacific multiple times and kept her heroic character along the way. Since Sacagawea was an interpreter for the crew, she was vital to the process of building relationships with the tribes that inhabited the frontier. The crew also wanted …show more content…
She was a very strong willed, brave person. She would have had to have been brave to jump in the water after the supplies had fallen off of the boat. She was also brave to go on a trip with a bunch of men ahe had never met before. She was also loyal, she never tried to run away or the crew during the trip which lasted around 1.5 years.
Even though she had done all of these things, some people still thought that she was no good . Some native Americans see her as a traitor since she helped the white man move west. What followed was a massive movement to assimilate the native Americans into white culture while many of the natives still didn’t want to become like the white man. She gave into a lot of what Lewis and Clark had been doing and even helped them do things that didn’t end up good for the native Americans. (www.dailynebraskan.com.)
Sacagawea has been a help to the U.S ever since she set foot towards the pacific with Lewis and Clark. She saved the trip that helped create America as we know it and even kept her noble character for over a year and a half. She had landed her place as a hero to many people because of these reasons and deserves to be a hero to many