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Silouen wrote:
"Charles D. Bohne" wrote in message
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On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 10:27:11 GMT, "Silouen"
wrote:

Sacajawea
http://www.rootsweb.com/~nwa/sacajawea.html

Essentially correct, but with some minor error, Charles.

The confusion is partly in the spelling of my name.
There is a word in Shoshoni, 'sacajawea' that means 'he who launches the
boat'.
It just sounds the same.
The modern Hidatsa spelling of the same sounding is Sacagawea.
But it still has the 'zh' sound like a 'j', and as I said, I had a different
name in Shoshoni.

Jean Baptiste was actually my dad, the Proz, in RL.

I thought they said Jean Baptiste was Sacajawea's baby?

Double-A

Contrary to the article, I Did serve as guide and interpreter, though I was
one of three main guides to the expedition.
I was the one with long, dark hair and beads -- the cute little one.

And of Course I complained when they weren't going to let me see the beached
whale, and for obvious reasons!
They usually beach themselves when they've done something they cannot live
with.
Like some human suicide attempts, counseling can help.
In this case it was way too late.
As for the ambergris and stuff, well, sometimes we must accept distasteful
things if we are to learn.
And back then the whales were far less endangered than now.

Both stories of Sacajawea's death have substance.
I was supposed to 'die' early on, but then I decided to explore more of the
NA continent firsthand.

So you see, this is all minor stuff and written history of the exploration
is momentously well-defined.

Sil