Sacagawea was one tough lady. When she was just a young teenage mother, this Shoshone explorer tied her baby to her back and fearlessly traveled westward across America as part of Lewis and Clark’s famous expedition. For many people, that’s pretty much the beginning and end of Sacagawea’s story—but they’d be so, so wrong.
From her perilous childhood to her nightmare of a marriage, there’s a lot more to know about this Indigenous icon’s incredible and heartbreaking life.