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Sacagawea

Randy'L He-dow Teton, model for U. Randy'L He-dow Teton is the Shoshone woman who posed as the model for the US Sacagawea dollar coin first issued in 2000. S. Sacagawea dollar coin
Born c. The Sacagawea dollar, along with the Presidential Dollar series, is one of the two current United States dollar coins This coin was first minted in 2000 and depicts 1788
Died December 20, 1812
Fort Lisa, Nebraska
Other names Sakakawea, Sacajawea
Known for Accompanied the Lewis and Clark Expedition

Sacagawea (also Sakakawea, Sacajawea; see below) (c. Events 69 - Vespasian, formerly a general under Nero, enters Rome to claim the title of Emperor. Year 1812 ( MDCCCXII) a leap year started on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year Fort Lisa is the name of two locations significant to Fur trading in the Midwestern United States Nebraska ( is a state located on the Great Plains of the Midwestern United States and 1788 – December 20, 1812; see below for other theories about her death) was a Shoshone woman who accompanied the Lewis and Clark Expedition, led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, in their exploration of the Western United States. Year 1788 ( MDCCLXXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap Events 69 - Vespasian, formerly a general under Nero, enters Rome to claim the title of Emperor. Year 1812 ( MDCCCXII) a leap year started on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year The Shoshone ( or) are a Native American tribe with three large divisions the Northern the Western and the Eastern Meriwether Lewis ( August 18, 1774 &ndash October 11, 1809) was an American Explorer, Soldier, and public administrator William Clark ( August 1, 1770 &ndash September 1, 1838) was an American explorer soldier Indian agent, and territorial governor The Western United States &mdashcommonly referred to as the American West or simply the West &mdashtraditionally refers to the region comprising the westernmost She traveled thousands of miles from North Dakota to the Pacific Ocean between 1804 and 1806. North Dakota ( is a state located in the Midwestern and Western regions of the United States of America. The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth 's Oceanic divisions She was nicknamed Janey by Clark. [1]

Reliable historical information about Sacagawea is extremely limited, but she has become an important part of the Lewis and Clark mythology in the American public imagination. The National American Woman Suffrage Association of the early twentieth century adopted her as a symbol of women's worth and independence, erecting several statues and plaques in her memory, and doing much to spread the story of her accomplishments. The National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA an American women's rights organization was formed as an amalgamation of the National Woman Suffrage Association [2]

The Sacagawea dollar coin issued by the United States Mint depicts Sacagawea and her son, Jean Baptiste. The Sacagawea dollar, along with the Presidential Dollar series, is one of the two current United States dollar coins This coin was first minted in 2000 and depicts The United States Mint primarily produces circulating coinage for the United States to conduct its Trade and Commerce. Jean Baptiste Charbonneau ( February 11, 1805 – May 16, 1866) traveled across North America as an infant with his mother Sacagawea The face on the coin was modeled on a modern Shoshone-Bannock woman named Randy'L He-dow Teton; no contemporary image of Sacagawea exists. Randy'L He-dow Teton is the Shoshone woman who posed as the model for the US Sacagawea dollar coin first issued in 2000.

Contents

Biography

Early life

Sacagawea was born into an Agaidika ("Salmon Eater") tribe of Lemhi Shoshone between Kenney Creek and Agency Creek, near what is now the town of Tendoy in Lemhi County, Idaho. Tendoy is a town or other location in Lemhi County Idaho. It is the nearest location to Lemhi Pass of the Lolo Trail over the Bitterroot Mountains Lemhi County is a County located in the US state of Idaho. The county was established in 1869 The State of Idaho ( is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States of America. [3] Her exact birth year is unknown. When she was somewhere between ten and twelve years old, she and several other girls were kidnapped by a group of Hidatsa (also known as Minnetarees) in a battle that resulted in the death of four Shoshone men, four women and several boys. The Hidatsa (called Minnetaree by their allies the Mandan) are a Siouan people a part of the Three Affiliated Tribes. [4] She was then taken to a Hidatsa village near the present-day Washburn, North Dakota. Washburn is a city in McLean County, North Dakota in the United States.

At about thirteen years of age, Sacagawea was taken as a wife by Toussaint Charbonneau, a French trapper living in the village, who had also taken another young Shoshone named Otter Woman as a wife. Toussaint Charbonneau ( March 20, 1767 - August 12, 1843; see note was a French-Canadian explorer and trader and a member Charbonneau is said to have either purchased both wives from the Hidatsa, or to have won Sacagawea while gambling.

The Lewis and Clark expeditions

Sacagawea was pregnant with her first child when the Corps of Discovery arrived near the Hidatsa villages to spend the winter of 1804-1805. Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark built Fort Mandan and interviewed several trappers who might be able to translate or guide the expedition further up the Missouri River in the springtime. Meriwether Lewis ( August 18, 1774 &ndash October 11, 1809) was an American Explorer, Soldier, and public administrator William Clark ( August 1, 1770 &ndash September 1, 1838) was an American explorer soldier Indian agent, and territorial governor Fort Mandan was the name of the encampment at which the Lewis and Clark Expedition wintered in 1804 - 1805. They agreed to hire Charbonneau as an interpreter when they discovered his wife spoke the Shoshone language, as they knew they would need the help of the Shoshone tribes at the headwaters of the Missouri. Shoshone is a Native American language spoken by the Shoshone people

Lewis recorded in his journal on November 4, 1804:

"a French man by Name Chabonah, who speaks the Big Belly language visit us, he wished to hire and informed us his 2 squars were snake Indians, we engage him to go on with us and take one his wives to interpret the Snake language…" [sic]

Charbonneau and Sacagawea moved into the fort a week later. Events 1333 - Flood of the Arno River, causing massive damage in Florence as recorded by the Florentine chronicler Giovanni Villani Year 1804 ( MDCCCIV) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a The Shoshone ( or) are a Native American tribe with three large divisions the Northern the Western and the Eastern Lewis recorded the birth of Jean Baptiste Charbonneau on February 11, 1805, noting that another of the party's interpreters administered crushed rattlesnake rattles from Lewis' specimen collection to speed the delivery. Jean Baptiste Charbonneau ( February 11, 1805 – May 16, 1866) traveled across North America as an infant with his mother Sacagawea Events 660 BC - Traditional founding date of Japan by Emperor Jimmu. Year 1805 ( MDCCCV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or Rattlesnakes are a group of venomous Snakes, genera Crotalus and Sistrurus. The boy was called "Little Pomp" or "Pompy" by Clark and others in the expedition.

In April, the expedition left Fort Mandan and headed up the Missouri River in pirogues, which had to be poled and sometimes pulled from the riverbanks. A pirogue is a small flat-bottomed boat of a design associated particularly with West African fishermen and the Cajuns of the Louisiana marsh On May 14, 1805, Sacagawea rescued items that had fallen out of a capsized boat, including the journals and records of Lewis and Clark. Events 1264 - Battle of Lewes: Henry III of England is captured in France making Simon de Montfort the Year 1805 ( MDCCCV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or The corps commanders, who praised her quick action on this occasion, would name the Sacagawea River in her honor on May 20. The Sacagawea River is a tributary of the Musselshell River, approximately 30 mi (48 km long in north-central Montana in the United States. Events 325 - The First Council of Nicaea &ndash the first Ecumenical Council of the Christian Church is held

By August 1805 the corps had located a Shoshone tribe and was attempting to trade for horses to cross the Rocky Mountains. Mountain peaks of the Rocky Mountains The Rocky Mountains, often called the Rockies, are a Mountain range in western North America. Sacagawea was brought in to translate, and it was discovered the tribe's chief was her brother, Cameahwait. Cameahwait was the brother of Sacagawea, and a Shoshone chief

Lewis recorded the reunion in his journal:

"Shortly after Capt. Clark arrived with the Interpreter Charbono, and the Indian woman, who proved to be a sister of the Chief Cameahwait. The meeting of those people was really affecting, particularly between Sah cah-gar-we-ah and an Indian woman, who had been taken prisoner at the same time with her, and who had afterwards escaped from the Minnetares and rejoined her nation. "[5]

And Clark in his:

"The Intertrepeter & Squar who were before me at Some distance danced for the joyful Sight, and She made signs to me that they were her nation"[6]

The Shoshone agreed to barter horses to the group, and to provide guides to lead them over the treacherously cold and barren Rocky Mountains, where they were reduced to eating tallow candles to survive. Tallow is a rendered form of Beef or Mutton Fat, processed from Suet. When they descended into the more temperate regions on the other side, Sacagawea helped to find and cook camas roots to help them regain their strength. Camassia is a Genus of six species native to western North America, from southern British Columbia to northern California, and

Lewis and Clark on the Lower Columbia by Charles Marion Russell
Lewis and Clark on the Lower Columbia by Charles Marion Russell

As the expedition approached the mouth of the Columbia River, Sacagawea gave up her beaded belt in order to allow the captains to trade for a fur robe they wished to return to President Jefferson. Charles Marion Russell (March 19 1864 St Louis Missouri—October 24 1926 Great Falls Montana) also known as C The Columbia River (known as The journal entry for November 20, 1805 reads:

"one of the Indians had on a roab made of 2 Sea Otter Skins the fur of them were more butifull than any fur I had ever Seen both Capt. Events 284 - Diocletian was chosen as Roman Emperor. 762 - Bögü Khan of the Uyghurs, Year 1805 ( MDCCCV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or Lewis & my Self endeavored to purchase the roab with differant articles at length we precured it for a belt of blue beeds which the Squar—wife of our interpreter Shabono wore around her waste. . . . "[7]

When the corps reached the Pacific Ocean at last, all members of the expedition—including Sacagawea and Clark's black manservant York—were allowed to participate in a November 24 vote on the location where they would build their fort for the winter. York ( c 1770-March 1831? was an American Slave best known for his service with the Lewis and Clark Expedition and subsequent demands for freedom Events 380 - Theodosius I makes his adventus, or formal In January, when a whale's carcass washed up onto the beach south of Fort Clatsop, she insisted upon her right to go see this "monstrous fish". Fort Clatsop was the encampment of the Lewis and Clark Expedition in the Oregon Country near the mouth of the Columbia River during the winter of 1805-1806

On the return trip, they approached the Rocky Mountains in July of 1806. On July 6, Clark recorded "The Indian woman informed me that she had been in this plain frequently and knew it well. . . . She said we would discover a gap in the mountains in our direction. . . " which is now Gibbons Pass. Gibbons Pass (el 2076 m/6811 ft is a high Mountain pass in the Rocky Mountains in Montana. A week later, on July 13, Sacagawea advised Clark to cross into the Yellowstone River basin at what is now known as Bozeman Pass, later chosen as the optimal route for the Northern Pacific Railway to cross the continental divide. The Yellowstone River is a Tributary of the Missouri River, approximately 671 miles (1080 km long in the western United States. Bozeman Pass (el 1743 m/5819 ft is a Mountain pass situated approximately 13 miles east of the town of Bozeman Montana and just west of the The Northern Pacific Railway was a railway that operated in the north-central region of the United States. A continental divide is a line of elevated Terrain which forms a border between two watersheds such that Water falling on one side of the line eventually

While Sacagawea often appears in romantic depictions as a guide for the expedition, she provided direction in only a few instances. Her translation efforts also helped the party to negotiate with the Shoshone. However, her greatest value to the mission may have been simply her presence, which indicated their peaceful intent. While traveling through what is now Franklin County, Washington, Clark noted "The Indian woman confirmed those people of our friendly intentions, as no woman ever accompanies a war party of Indians in this quarter" and "the wife of Shabono our interpetr we find reconsiles all the Indians, as to our freindly intentions a woman with a party of men is a token of peace. Franklin County is a County located in the US state of Washington. "[8]

As he traveled down the river from Fort Mandan at the end of the journey, Clark wrote a letter to Charbonneau:

"You have been a long time with me and conducted your Self in Such a manner as to gain my friendship, your woman who accompanied you that long dangerous and fatigueing rout to the Pacific Ocian and back diserved a greater reward for her attention and services on that rout than we had in our power to give her at the Mandans. As to your little Son (my boy Pomp) you well know my fondness of him and my anxiety to take him and raise him as my own child. . . If you are desposed to accept either of my offers to you and will bring down you Son your famn [femme, woman] Janey had best come along with you to take care of the boy untill I get him. . . . Wishing you and your family great suckcess & with anxious expectations of seeing my little danceing boy Baptiest I shall remain your Friend, William Clark"

Later life and death

After the expedition, Charbonneau and Sacagawea spent three years among the Hidatsa before accepting William Clark's invitation to settle in St. Louis, Missouri in 1809. They entrusted Jean-Baptiste's education to Clark, who enrolled the young man in the Saint Louis Academy boarding school. St Louis University High School (SLUH a Jesuit Catholic High school for boys founded in 1818 is the oldest secondary educational institution in

Sacagawea gave birth to a daughter, Lizette, sometime after 1810. According to Bonnie "Spirit Wind-Walker" Butterfield, historical documents suggest Sacagawea died in 1812 of an unknown sickness:

"An 1811 journal entry made by Henry Brackenridge, a fur dealer at Fort Manuel Lisa Trading Post on the Missouri River, stated that both Sacagawea and Charbonneau were living at the fort. He recorded that Sacagawea "…had become sickly and longed to revisit her native country. " The following year, John Luttig, a clerk at Fort Manuel Lisa recorded in his journal on December 20, 1812, that "…the wife of Charbonneau, a Snake Squaw [the common term used to denote Shoshone Indians], died of putrid fever. " He went on to say that she was "aged about 25 years. She left a fine infant girl". [9] Documents held by Clark show that her son Baptiste had already been entrusted by Charbonneau into Clark's care for a boarding school education, at Clark's insistence (Jackson, 1962). "[10]

A few months later, fifteen men were killed in an Indian attack on Fort Lisa, located at the mouth of the Bighorn River. Fort Lisa is the name of two locations significant to Fur trading in the Midwestern United States The Bighorn River is a Tributary of the Yellowstone, approximately 461 mi (742 km long in the western United States in the states of Wyoming [9] John Luttig and Sacagawea's young daughter were among the survivors. Toussaint Charbonneau was mistakenly thought to have been killed at this time, but he apparently lived to at least eighty. He had signed over formal custody of his son to Clark in 1813.

As further proof that Sacagawea died at this time, Butterfield says:

"An adoption document made in the Orphans Court Records in St. Louis, Missouri states that "On August 11, 1813, William Clark became the guardian of "Tousant Charbonneau, a boy about ten years, and Lizette Charbonneau, a girl about one year old. Events 2492 BC - Traditional date of the defeat of Bel by Hayk, progenitor and founder of the Armenian nation Year 1813 ( MDCCCXIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common " For a Missouri State Court at the time, to designate a child as orphaned and to allow an adoption, both parents had to be confirmed dead in court papers.
"The last recorded document citing Sacagawea's existence appears in William Clark's original notes written between 1825-1826. He lists the names of each of the expedition members and their last known whereabouts. For Sacagawea he writes: "Se car ja we au- Dead" (Jackson, 1962). "[10]

It is not believed that Lizette survived childhood, as there is no later record of her among Clark's papers.

An 1884 death?

Some Native American oral traditions relate that rather than dying in 1812, Sacagawea left her husband Charbonneau, crossed the Great Plains and married into a Comanche tribe, then returned to the Shoshone in Wyoming where she died in 1884. The Great Plains are the broad expanse of Prairie and Steppe which lie east of the Rocky Mountains in the United States and Canada

Marker of grave alleged to be Sacajawea's, Fort Washakie, Wyoming
Marker of grave alleged to be Sacajawea's, Fort Washakie, Wyoming

In 1925, Dr. Charles Eastman, a Dakota Sioux physician, was hired by the Bureau of Indian Affairs to locate Sacagawea's remains. History Although the bureau which was called the Office of Indian Affairs was formed in 1824 similar agencies had existed in the U Eastman visited many different Native American tribes to interview elderly individuals that might have known or heard of Sacagawea, and learned of a Shoshone woman at the Wind River Reservation with the Comanche name Porivo or "chief woman". Some of the people he interviewed said that she spoke of a long journey where she had helped white men, and that she had a silver Jefferson peace medal of the type carried by the Lewis and Clark Expedition. The term Indian Peace Medals is most commonly associated with circular Silver medallions distributed to Native American tribal representatives by representatives of the United He found a Comanche woman called Tacutine who said that Porivo was her grandmother, and that she had married into a Comanche tribe and had a number of children including Tacutine's father Ticannaf. Porivo then left the tribe after her husband Jerk-Meat was killed. [11]

According to these narratives, Porivo then lived for some time at Fort Bridger in Wyoming with her sons Bazil and Baptiste, who each knew several languages including English and French. Fort Bridger was a 19th century fur trading outpost established in 1842 on Blacks Fork of the Green River Eventually she found her way back to the Lemhi Shoshone at the Wind River Indian Reservation, where she was recorded as "Bazil's mother". Wind River Indian Reservation is an Indian reservation shared by the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho tribes of Native Americans in the [11] This woman died on April 9, 1884, and a Reverend John Roberts officiated at her funeral.

It was Eastman's conclusion that Porivo was Sacagawea. [12] In 1963 a monument to "Sacajawea of the Shoshonis" was erected at Fort Washakie on the Wind River reservation near Lander, Wyoming on the basis of this claim. Fort Washakie is a Census-designated place (CDP in Fremont County, Wyoming, United States, within the Wind River Indian Reservation Lander is a city in and the County seat of Fremont County, Wyoming, United States. [13]

The belief that Sacagawea lived to old age was widely disseminated in the United States by the 1933 novel Sacagawea by Grace Hebard. This notion was also explored fifty years later in the 1984 novel Sacajawea by Anna Lee Waldo; in this case the author was well aware of the historical research supporting an 1812 death, but chose to explore the oral tradition instead. Sacajawea is a massive (over 1300 pages historical fictional Novel (only sold in mass market paperback and trade paperback about the life of Sacajawea Anna Lee Waldo is an American historical fiction author She is most noted for her novel Sacajawea.

Name

A long-running controversy has surrounded the correct spelling, pronunciation, and etymology of the woman's name.

Sacagawea

Sacagawea /səˈkagəˈwiə/ is the most widely used spelling of her name, and is pronounced with a hard "g" sound, rather than a soft "g" or "j" sound. Lewis and Clark's original journals mention Sacagawea by name seventeen times, spelled eight different ways, each time with a "g". Clark used Sahkahgarwea, Sahcahgagwea, Sarcargahwea and Sahcahgahweah, while Lewis used Sahcahgahwea, Sahcahgarweah, Sahcargarweah and Sahcahgar Wea.

The spelling Sacagawea was established in 1910 as the proper usage in government documents by the United States Bureau of American Ethnology, and is the spelling adopted by the United States Mint for use with the dollar coin, as well as the United States Board on Geographic Names and the U. The Bureau of American Ethnology (originally Bureau of Ethnology was established in 1879 by an act of Congress for the purpose of transferring archives records and materials The United States Mint primarily produces circulating coinage for the United States to conduct its Trade and Commerce. The Sacagawea dollar, along with the Presidential Dollar series, is one of the two current United States dollar coins This coin was first minted in 2000 and depicts The United States Board on Geographic Names (BGN is a United States federal body whose purpose is to establish and maintain uniform usage of geographic S. National Park Service. The National Park Service ( NPS) is the United States federal agency that manages all National Parks, many National Monuments, and other conservation The spelling is used by a large number of historical scholars. [14]

Sakakawea

Sakakawea /səˈkakəˈwiə/ is the next most widely adopted spelling, and the most often accepted among specialists. [15] Proponents say the name comes from the Hidatsa language tsakáka wía, "bird woman". [16][17] Charbonneau told expedition members that his wife's name meant "Bird Woman", and in May 1805 Lewis used the Hidatsa meaning in his journal:

"a handsome river of about fifty yards in width discharged itself into the shell river. . . this stream we called Sah-ca-gah-we-ah or bird woman’s River, after our interpreter the Snake woman. "

Sakakawea is the official spelling of her name according to the Three Affiliated Tribes, which include the Hidatsa, and is widely used throughout North Dakota (where she is considered a state heroine), notably in the naming of Lake Sakakawea. Mandan Hidatsa and Arikara Nation, also known as the Three Affiliated Tribes, are a Native American group comprising a union of the Mandan, Hidatsa The Hidatsa (called Minnetaree by their allies the Mandan) are a Siouan people a part of the Three Affiliated Tribes. North Dakota ( is a state located in the Midwestern and Western regions of the United States of America. Lake Sakakawea is a reservoir in the Missouri River basin in central North Dakota.

The North Dakota State Historical Society quotes Russell Reid's book Sakakawea: The Bird Woman:

Her Hidatsa name, which Charbonneau stated meant "Bird Woman," should be spelled "Tsakakawias" according to the foremost Hidatsa language authority, Dr. The State Historical Society of North Dakota is an agency that preserves and presents history through museums and historic sites in the state of North Washington Matthews. When this name is anglicized for easy pronunciation, it becomes Sakakawea, "Sakaka" meaning "bird" and "wea" meaning "woman. " This is the spelling adopted by North Dakota. The spelling authorized for the use of Federal agencies by the United States Geographic Board is Sacagawea. Although not closely following Hidatsa spelling, the pronunciation is quite similar and the Geographic Board acknowledged the name to be a Hidatsa word meaning "Bird Woman. "[18]

However, Irving W. Anderson, president of the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation, argued:

. . . the Sakakawea spelling similarly is not found in the Lewis and Clark journals. To the contrary, this spelling traces its origin neither through a personal connection with her nor in any primary literature of the expedition. It has been independently constructed from two Hidatsa Indian words found in a dictionary titled Ethnography and Philology of the Hidatsa Indians, published by the Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C. , 1877. Compiled by a United States Army surgeon, Dr. Washington Matthews, 65 years following Sacagawea's death, the words appear verbatim in the dictionary as "tsa-ka-ka, noun; a bird," and "mia [wia, bia], noun; a woman. [19]

Sacajawea

Sacajawea or Sacajewea /ˈsækəʤəˈwiə/, in contrast to the Hidatsa etymology, is said to be derived from words in the Shoshone language words "Saca-tzaw-meah" meaning "boat puller" or "boat launcher". Shoshone is a Native American language spoken by the Shoshone people [19] It is the preferred spelling used by the Lemhi Shoshone people, some of whom claim that her Hidatsa captors merely reinterpreted her existing Shoshone name in their own language, and pronounced it in their own dialect[20] -- they heard a name that approximated "tsakaka" and "wia", and interpreted it as "bird woman", substituting the hard "g/k" pronunciation for the softer "tz/j" sound that did not exist in the Hidatsa language.

The usage of this spelling almost certainly originated from the use of the "j" spelling by Nicholas Biddle, who annotated the Lewis and Clark Expedition's journals for publication in 1814. Nicholas Biddle ( January 8 1786 – February 27 1844) was an American Financier who served as the president of the This usage became more widespread with the publication of the 1902 novel, The Conquest: The True Story of Lewis and Clark, written by Eva Emery Dye. It is likely Dye used Biddle's secondary source for the spelling, and her highly popular book made it ubiquitous throughout the United States (previously most non-scholars had never even heard of Sacagawea). [21]

Rozina George, great-great-great-great-grandaughter of Cameahwait, says the Agaidika tribe of Lemhi Shoshone do not recognize the spelling or pronunciation Sacagawea, and schools and other memorials erected in the area surrounding her birthplace use the spelling Sacajawea. Cameahwait was the brother of Sacagawea, and a Shoshone chief

"The Lemhi Shoshone call her Sacajawea. It is derived from the Shoshone word for her name, Saca tzah we yaa. In his Cash Book, William Clark spells Sacajawea with a “J”. Also, William Clark and Private George Shannon explained to Nicholas Biddle (Published the first Lewis and Clark Journals in 1814) about the pronunciation of her name and how the tz sounds more like a “j”. What better authority on the pronunciation of her name than Clark and Shannon who traveled with her and constantly heard the pronunciation of her name? We do not believe it is a Minnetaree (Hidatsa) word for her name. Sacajawea was a Lemhi Shoshone not a Hidatsa. "[4]

Idaho native John Rees explored the "boat launcher" etymology in a long letter to the United States Commissioner of Indian Affairs written in the 1920s; it was republished in 1970 by The Lemhi County Historical Society as a pamphlet titled "Madame Charbonneau" and contains many of the arguments in favor of the Shoshone derivation of the name. [20][19]

The spelling Sacajawea, though widely taught until the late 20th century, is generally considered incorrect in modern academia. Linguistics professor Dr. Sven Liljeblad from the Idaho State University in Pocatello has concluded that "it is unlikely that Sacajawea is a Shoshoni word. Idaho State University (ISU is a public University operated by the U Pocatello (ˌpoʊkəˈtɛloʊ is the County seat and largest city of Bannock County, with a small portion on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation in neighboring . . . The term for 'boat' in Shoshoni is saiki, but the rest of the alleged compound would be incomprehensible to a native speaker of Shoshoni. "[19] The spelling has subsided from general use, although the corresponding "soft j" pronunciation persists in American culture.

Fiction

Sakakawea Monument, Mobridge, South Dakota, 2003
Sakakawea Monument, Mobridge, South Dakota, 2003

Two early twentieth-century novels shaped much of the public perception of Sacagawea. The Conquest: The True Story of Lewis and Clark, was written by American suffragist Eva Emery Dye and published in 1902 in anticipation of the expedition's centennial. Suffrage (from the Latin suffragium, meaning "voting tablet" and figuratively "right to vote" probably from suffrago "hough" and originally The National American Woman Suffrage Association embraced her as a female hero, and numerous stories and essays about her appeared in ladies' journals. The National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA an American women's rights organization was formed as an amalgamation of the National Woman Suffrage Association A few decades later, Sacagawea (1933) by Grace Hebard was published to even greater success. Sacagawea has since become a popular figure in historical and young adult novels, including the long 1984 novel Sacajawea by Anna Lee Waldo. Sacajawea is a massive (over 1300 pages historical fictional Novel (only sold in mass market paperback and trade paperback about the life of Sacajawea Anna Lee Waldo is an American historical fiction author She is most noted for her novel Sacajawea.

Some fictionalizations of the expedition speculate that Sacagawea was romantically involved with Lewis or Clark during their expedition. While the journals show that she was friendly with Clark and would often do favors for him, the idea of a liaison was created by novelists who wrote about the expedition much later. This fiction was perpetuated in the 1955 Western film The Far Horizons. The Western is a fiction Genre seen in Film, Television, Radio, Literature, Painting and other Visual arts.

Music

Sacagewea is referenced in the Stevie Wonder song "Black Man", from the album Songs in the Key of Life. Stevie Wonder (born Stevland Hardaway Judkins on May 13 1950 name later changed to Stevland Hardaway Morris) is an Songs in the Key of Life is an album by Stevie Wonder, released on Motown on September 28, 1976 (see 1976 in music

Memorials

The Sacajawea Park

A 71-acre park dedicated to Sacagawea is located in Salmon, Idaho by the rivers and mountains of Sacajawea’s homeland. The Sacagawea River is a tributary of the Musselshell River, approximately 30 mi (48 km long in north-central Montana in the United States. Lake Sakakawea is a reservoir in the Missouri River basin in central North Dakota. USS Sacagawea has been the name of several ships of the United States Navy The Sacagawea dollar, along with the Presidential Dollar series, is one of the two current United States dollar coins This coin was first minted in 2000 and depicts

In sculpture

Statue in Bismarck, North Dakota
Statue in Bismarck, North Dakota

References

  1. ^ "Captain Clark created the nickname "Janey" for Sacagawea, which he transcribed twice, November 24, 1805, in his journal, and in a letter to Toussaint, August 20, 1806. It is thought that Clark's use of "Janey" derived from "jane," colloquial army slang for girl. " Anderson, Irving W. "The Sacagawea Mystique"
  2. ^ Fresonke, Kris and Spence, Mark David. Lewis & Clark: Legacies, Memories, and New Perspectives. University of California Press, February 25, 2004. ISBN 978-0520238220
  3. ^ SacajaweaHome.Com, Lemhi County Historical Museum.
  4. ^ a b George, Rozina. "Agaidika Perspective on Sacajawea", Life Long Learning: The Lewis and Clark Rediscovery Project.
  5. ^ The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition Online: August 17, 1805
  6. ^ The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition Online: August 17, 1805
  7. ^ The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition Online: November 20, 1805
  8. ^ The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition Online: October 13, 1805
  9. ^ a b Drumm, Stella M. , ed. (1920). "Journal of a Fur-trading Expedition on the Upper Missouri: John Luttig, 1812-1813". St. Louis: Missouri Historical Society.
  10. ^ a b Butterfield, Bonnie "Spirit Wind-Walker". "Sacagawea: Captive, Indian Interpreter, Great American Legend: Her Life and Death".
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  12. ^ University of Wyoming American Heritage Center
  13. ^ Lewis and Clark Trail
  14. ^ "Reading Lewis and Clark - Thomasma, Clark, and Edmonds", Idaho Commission for Libraries
  15. ^ Koontz, John. Etymology. Siouan Languages. Retrieved 2007-04-01
  16. ^ Bright, William (2004). Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 527 - Byzantine Emperor Justin I names his nephew Justinian I as co-ruler and successor to the throne Native American Place Names in the United States. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, pg. 413
  17. ^ Hartley, Alan H. (2002). Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas Newsletter 20. 4:12-13
  18. ^ Reid, Russell. Sakakawea: The Bird Woman. Bismarck: State Historical Society of North Dakota, 1986, as quoted in the State Historical Society of North Dakota document Language Authority, Rev. C. L. Hall, Retrieved 2007-12-12
  19. ^ a b c d Anderson, Irving W. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 627 - Battle of Nineveh: A Byzantine army under Emperor Heraclius defeats Emperor Khosrau II 's Persian "The Sacagawea Mystique: Her Age, Name, Role and Final Destiny", COLUMBIA Magazine, Fall 1999; Vol. 13, No. 3
  20. ^ a b "The Legend of Her Name", Lemhi County Historical Museum
  21. ^ "[The Lewis and Clark Expedition] merited less than a single paragraph in John Clark Ridpath's 691-page Popular History of the United States of America (1878). " [. . . ] "Within three years of publication of Dye's novel the first book devoted exclusively to Sacagawea, Katherine Chandler's The Bird-Woman of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, appeared as a supplementary reader for elementary school students. " [Chandler's book used the "Sacajawea" spelling. ] Dippie, Brian W. "Sacagawea Imagery", Chief Washakie Foundation
  22. ^ Biography and Photo of the Statue of Sacagawea, at the National Statuary Hall in Washington D. C.
  23. ^ "Late May 1805" diorama by Harry Weber.
  24. ^ "Sacajawea and Jean-Baptiste", sculpted by Alice Cooper

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Dictionary

Sacagawea

-noun

  1. (US) A gold-colored dollar coin with an image of the girl Sacagawea on the obverse.

-proper noun

  1. The historic Native American girl who led explorers Lewis and Clark across the United States.
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