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Little is known about Sacagawea after the expedition. According to some accounts, in 1811, a traveler was described as looking alone and wearing white women’s clothes. She gave birth to a daughter about six years after the expedition ended, Lisette, but it is unknown if her daughter survived infancy. Soon after Lisette was born, Sacagawea passed away. She was approximately 25 years old. William Clark legally adopted Sacagawea’s children about eight months after her death. We do know that her son, Jean Baptiste, was educated in St. Louis before going off to Europe at the age of 18.
In a letter Clark later wrote to Charbonneau, he reiterated Sacagawea’s significance to the Corps of Discovery’s success: “Your woman who accompanied you that long dangerous and fatiguing rout[sic] to the Pacific Ocean and back disserved[sic] a greater reward for her attention and services on that route than we had in our power to offer her.”<ref>[["The Voyage of Discovery: Sacagawea"| http://nebraskastudies.unl.edu/0400/stories/0401_0107.html]], University of Nebraska, Lincoln.</ref>
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