The Sacagawea and York (Lewis and Clark) Expedition: How it should be known!

Ayda talks about how the native Americans were hunted down, slaughtered and had their children taken from them until, as he says, “there are no more stories to tell…” This is a part of the legacy upon which the United States is today built. The other parts include slavery, mass exploitation of surrounding countries and international coups. Some of these latter tales will come to light in future episodes. Early US governments took away a people’s ability to fully recount their ancient tales and keep the many cultures of their tribes.

Can you imagine a world devoid of storytelling? How much would we lose as cultures, as people, as intelligent beings? There would be no art, no ambition, no development as a community and only a future of dispersal, division and destruction.

In talking today of Sacagawea, an extremely small portion of that story is recorded. We will endeavour to try to bring many more forward in the coming months.

It is said Sacagawea and York “helped” the Lewis and Clark Expedition. I think we should use the verbs “saved” and “facilitated” more than helped. Clearly they were not the instigators of the expedition but it only succeeded because of them and for many different reasons.

As always, thank you Aydan for your research and your colourful input.

PS. The episode photo is the nutcracker Aydan was referring to at the beginning of the podcast. Plus a picture of his grandmother has been included too.

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