Sacajawea was a remarkable young Lemhi Shoshone woman who had just completed a 3000-mile journey with the Lewis and Clark Expedition and came to be viewed at the Pacific Ocean. At age 16 and a mother, she became an invaluable member of the expedition because of her knowledge of the Shoshone homeland they would pass through, and one of her most important contributions was reassuring Lewis and Clark that they were on the route to the westward passage to the “Great Waters.” Her life after the expedition is presented as controversial. Her son Jean Baptiste was adopted and educated by Captain Clark, while her adopted son Bazil remained in the Northern Shoshone areas. In later years she returned to the Shoshone homeland to live near Bazil. Recorded documents and statements by descendants, officials at Fort Washakie, and the Federal Government place her death and burial at the Sacajawea Cemetery, Fort Washakie, Wyoming, in 1884; a burial register on file at Roberts Mission, pages 114-115, lists Bazil’s Mother, identified as Shoshone, age BCC 100, residence Shoshone Agency, cause of death old age, buried at the burial ground Shoshone Agency on April 9, 1884, with J. Roberts signing as clergyman.