They began a skirmish which lead to Sacagawea being captured.
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The Whigs and the Democrats were in opposition to each other from 1840 to 1861 but both of them encountered intra-party sectionalism over slavery.
It is thought that Tsakakawia was captured by a Hidatsa (Minnetaree) war party when she was about 11 years old. They took her back to their village on the upper Missouri where she would have been treated as a slave. It was the Hidatsas who gave her the name Tsakakawia (Bird Woman), which Lewis and Clark wrote as Sacagawea.
The Corps of Discovery were helmed by Meriweather Lewis and William Clark. The group consisted of thirty-one individuals and one dog, known as the 'permanent party.' The hired two fur traders to help them travel. One of them, Toussaint Charbonneau, was the husband of Shoshone interpreter, Sacagawea.
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