Is Everything We Know about Sacagawea Wrong?

Here’s what we think we know about arguably the most famous Native American women who ever lived: she was interpreter and guide for Lewis & Clark; she traveled 1000s of miles from North Dakota to the Pacific Ocean and she died tragically young.

 

But…what if everything we know about Sacagawea is wrong…including how we pronounce her name…

 

Sandra and Dennis Fox sit down to talk with us. They are married scholars, now retired from the educations division at the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

 

Dennis is a directly descended from Sacagawea.

 

 Our Story of Eagle Woman: Sacagawea: They Got It Wrong, aims to set the record straight through oral histories, family testimony and even DNA evidence. And uipends everything we think we know about Sacagawea.

 

For more:

Books by Sandra and Dennis Fox:  https://www.specialbooks.com/namericans.htm

The New York Times article about Sacagawea: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/magazine/sacagawea-biography-history.html