Sacajawea

The arrow points to the Sacajawea Cemetery, where a woman the Shoshone knew as Porivo was buried on April 9, 1884, by the missionary John Roberts. In 1907 Roberts named her as the expedition's guide, Grace Raymond Hebard built the case into her 1933 biography, and Charles Eastman, sent by the Office of Indian Affairs, endorsed it in 1925. Most historians read the record otherwise: a fur clerk's entry of December 20, 1812, recording the death of Charbonneau's Shoshone wife, and Clark's later note marking her dead. Many Eastern Shoshone hold to the Wind River grave.

What the plaque says

Sacajawea Guide of the Lewis and Clark Expedition 1805 Dedicated by the Historical Landmark Commission of Wyoming 1941 Grave 2 miles west

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Chief Washakie's Grave — 1.3 mi
  The Army buried the Eastern Shoshone leader with full honors in 1900; his gravestone praises his loyalty to whites and leaves the rest out.
• Sinks Canyon State Park — 19 mi
  A river that vanishes into a limestone cave and comes back a quarter mile on, slower than it should, warmer, and with more water than went in.
• St. Stephen's Mission — 23 mi
  A Jesuit mission on land the Arapaho leader Black Coal chose, its church painted with Arapaho designs, its boarding school named for what it was.

More markers nearby

• Washakie — 1.3 mi
• Site of Fort Thompson or Camp Magraw — 13 mi
• Bonneville Cabins — 16 mi
• Sinks Canyon - Corridor to the Winds — 17 mi