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TIL on the Lewis and Clark expedition in order to speak to a indian tribe they spoke English to a man who knew French that spoke to a man who knew French and Hidatsa so he told his wife Sacagawea who knew Hidatsa and Shoshone then she would tell the tribes slave who knew Shoshone and Salishan.

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