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At the age of twelve, Sacagawea (sometimes spelled Sacajawea), a Shoshone girl, was captured by the Hidatsa during a raid on her village. Enslaved and forced to leave her home, Sacagawea was taken east by the Hidatsa to present-day North Dakota, near what is today Bismarck. By age fifteen or sixteen Sacagawea had been either sold or gambled away to a French-Canadian fur trapper named Toussaint Charbonneau, who took the Shoshone girl as one of his wives.