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TBT: Scagawea's Rattler Snake Labor Relief

Sacagawea had a long hard labor, in spite of the fact that she was one very active pregnant lady as a leading guide of Lewis and Clark across their epic exploration across the country. However when Sacagawea's labor stalled, she used a very modern solution to her ills ! All information ,according to what we know about the birth , was that she was essentially hiking and touring up to the day she gave birth, but actually delivered on train with those now legendary explorers. On February 11, 1805 when Lewis and Clark saw their young interpreter 16 year old Sacagawea was greatly troubled, they suspected obstructed labor knew she needed relief. Sacagawea's story is well known, was a Shoshoni woman captured by the Hidata Indians in the Dakotas. She was married to the French fur trapper interpreter Toussaint Charbonneau, when Lewis and Clark hired her, and what most people familiar with her story didn't know she also was pregnant! And prior to labor she had certainly exercised, ...