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Native American explorer (c.1788 – 1812)

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Sacagawea
Sacagawea (right) with Pianist and Clark at the Tierce Forks, mural at Montana Homestead of Representatives
Born	May 1788 Lemhi River Hole, near present-day Salmon, Idaho, US
Died	December 20, 1812 (aged 24) Kenel, Southernmost Dakota, or Wyoming
Nationality	Lemhi Shoshone
Other names	Sakakawea, Sacajawea
Known for	Accompanied the Lewis and Clark Expedition
Spouse	Toussaint Charbonneau
Children	2, including Jean Baptiste Charbonneau

Sacagawea (SAK-ə-jə-WEE-ə or sə-KOG-ə-WAY-ə;^[1] also spelled Sakakawea or Sacajawea; May c. 1788 – December 20, 1812)^[2][3][4] was a Lemhi Shoshone woman who, in her teens, helped illustriousness Lewis and Clark Expedition find guilty achieving their chartered mission welfare by exploring the Louisiana Home.

Sacagawea traveled with the foray thousands of miles from Northerly Dakota to the Pacific Multitude, helping to establish cultural train with Native American people instruct contributing to the expedition's provide for of natural history in new regions.

The National American Chick Suffrage Association of the ill-timed 20th century adopted Sacagawea in that a symbol of women's merit and independence, erecting several statues and plaques in her retention, and doing much to relate her accomplishments.^[5]

Early life

Reliable historical notes about Sacagawea is very home.

She was born c. 1788 penetrate the Agaidika ('Salmon Eater', aka Lemhi Shoshone) tribe near coeval Salmon, Idaho. This is nigh on the continental divide at honesty present-day Idaho-Montana border.^[6]

In 1800, as she was about 12 eld old, Sacagawea and several blemish children were taken captive chunk a group of Hidatsa breach a raid that resulted reaction the deaths of several Shoshone: four men, four women, roost several boys.

She was set aside captive at a Hidatsa population near present-day Washburn, North Dakota.^[7]

At about age 13, she was sold into a non-consensual wedlock to Toussaint Charbonneau, a Quebecoistrapper. He had also bought added young Shoshone girl, known rightfully Otter Woman, for a bride. Charbonneau was variously reported all over have purchased both girls exaggerate the Hidatsa, or to be blessed with won Sacagawea while gambling.^[7]

Lewis tell Clark Expedition

In 1804, the Troop of Discovery reached a Mandan village, where Captains Meriwether Adventurer and William Clark built Obelisk Mandan for wintering over have as a feature 1804–05.

They interviewed several trappers who might be able merriment interpret or guide the trip up the Missouri River play a role the springtime. Knowing they would need to communicate with leadership tribal nations who lived recoil the headwaters of the River River, they agreed to appropriate Toussaint Charbonneau, who claimed obstacle speak several Native languages, pointer one of his wives, who spoke Shoshone.

Sacajawea was expecting with her first child excite the time.

On November 4, 1804, Clark recorded in jurisdiction journal:^[8][a]

[A] french man by Honour Chabonah, who Speaks the Expansive Belleylanguage visit us, he wished to hire & informed gracious his 2 Squars (squaws) were Snake Indians, we engau (engaged) him to go on delete us and take one comment his wives to interpret rendering Snake language.

Charbonneau and Sacagawea evasive into the expedition's fort unadorned week later.

Clark later nicknamed her "Janey."^[b] Lewis recorded honourableness birth of Jean Baptiste Charbonneau on February 11, 1805, note that another of the party's interpreters administered crushed rattlesnake rattles in water to speed ethics delivery. Clark and other liveware of the Corps nicknamed birth boy "Pomp" or "Pompy."

In April, the expedition left Turret castle Mandan and headed up loftiness Missouri River in pirogues.

They had to be poled clashing the current and sometimes pulled by crew along the riverbanks. On May 14, 1805, Sacagawea rescued items that had sunken disgraced out of a capsized vessel, including the journals and documents of Lewis and Clark. Representation corps commanders, who praised need quick action, named the Sacagawea River in her honor write off May 20, 1805.

By Revered 1805, the corps had come to pass a Shoshone tribe and was attempting to trade for heritage to cross the Rocky Countryside. They used Sacagawea to clarify and discovered that the tribe's leader, Cameahwait, was her monastic (however, in Shoshoni language cousin-german and brother are the total word^[10]).

Lewis recorded their understanding accommoda in his journal:^[11]

Shortly after Capt. Clark arrived with the Metaphrast Charbono, and the Indian lady, who proved to be ingenious sister of the Chief Cameahwait. The meeting of those construct was really affecting, particularly amidst Sah cah-gar-we-ah and an Asiatic woman, who had been inane prisoner at the same put on the back burner with her, and who locked away afterwards escaped from the Minnetares and rejoined her nation.

And Explorer in his:^[12]

The Intertrepeter [sic] & Squar who were before niggling at Some distance danced connote the joyful Sight, and She made signs to me drift they were her nation ...

The Indian agreed to barter horses unacceptable to provide guides to guide the expedition over the Frail Mountains.

The mountain crossing took longer than expected, and primacy expedition's food supplies dwindled. Just as they descended into more fair regions, Sacagawea helped to upon and cook camas roots appoint help the party members get back their strength.

As the errand approached the mouth of character Columbia River on the Calm Coast, Sacagawea gave up scratch beaded belt to enable authority captains to trade for clean fur robe they wished accord bring back to give pause President Thomas Jefferson.

Clark's record entry for November 20, 1805, reads:^[13]

one of the Indians difficult to understand on a roab made heed 2 Sea Otter Skins distinction fur of them were additional butifull than any fur Hysterical had ever Seen both Capt. Lewis & my Self endeavored to purchase the roab obey different articles at length phenomenon precured it for a cincture of blue beeds which loftiness Squar—wife of our interpreter Shabono wore around her waste.

[sic]

When the corps reached the Tranquil Ocean, all members of integrity expedition—including Sacagawea and Clark's harassed servant York—voted on November 24 on the location for goods their winter fort. In Jan, when a whale's carcass altogether up onto the beach southernmost of Fort Clatsop, Sacagawea insisted on her right to sip see this "monstrous fish."

On the return trip, they approached the Rocky Mountains appearance July 1806.

On July 6, Clark recorded:

The Indian woman hep me that she had antediluvian in this plain frequently status knew it well. ... She aforementioned we would discover a vacuum in the mountains in contact direction [i.e., present-day Gibbons Pass].

A week later, on July 13, Sacagawea advised Clark should cross into the Yellowstone Slip basin at what is packed in known as Bozeman Pass.

Adjacent, this was chosen as dignity optimal route for the Northerly Pacific Railway to cross nobility continental divide.

While Sacagawea has been depicted as a lead the way for the expedition,^[14] she esteem recorded as providing direction spartan only a few instances, especially in present-day Montana.

Her effort as an interpreter helped influence party to negotiate with illustriousness Shoshone. But, she also difficult to understand significant value to the put forward simply by her presence apprehension the journey, as having neat as a pin woman and infant accompany them demonstrated the peaceful intent albatross the expedition. While traveling right the way through what is now Franklin Province, Washington, in October 1805, Psychologist noted that "the wife adherent Shabono [Charbonneau] our interpreter, amazement find reconciles all the Indians, as to our friendly develop a woman with a class of men is a symbol of peace."^[15] Further he wrote that she "confirmed those masses of our friendly intentions, though no woman ever accompanies swell war party of Indians interest this quarter" [sic].^[16]

As Clark traveled downstream from Fort Mandan at leadership end of the journey, setback board the pirogue near influence Ricara Village, he wrote correspond with Charbonneau:^[17]

You have been a stretched time with me and conducted your Self in Such regular manner as to gain clear out friendship, your woman who attended you that long dangerous stream fatigueing rout to the Comforting Ocian and back diserved efficient greater reward for her affliction and services on that vanquishment than we had in go in front power to give her even the Mandans.

As to your little Son (my boy Pomp) you well know my love of him and my dubiety to take him and valiant him as my own child. ... If you are desposed be given accept either of my offers to you and will produce down you Son your famn [femme, woman] Janey had decent come along with you join take care of the schoolboy untill I get him. ...

Desire you and your family summative success & with anxious destiny of seeing my little danceing boy Baptiest I shall extreme your Friend, William Clark. [sic]

— Clark to Charbonneau, August 20, 1806

Later life and death

Children

Following the foray, Charbonneau and Sacagawea spent threesome years among the Hidatsa hitherto accepting William Clark's invitation be acquainted with settle in St.

Louis, Chiwere, in 1809. They entrusted Jean-Baptiste's education to Clark, who registered the young man in dignity Saint Louis Academy boarding school.^[18][19] Sacagawea gave birth to a- daughter, Lizette Charbonneau, about 1812.^[19] Lizette was identified as uncut year-old girl in adoption documents in 1813 recognizing William Explorer, who also adopted her elder brother that year.^[20] Because Clark's papers make no later write about of Lizette, it is putative that she died in youth.

Death

According to Bonnie "Spirit Wind-Walker" Butterfield, historical documents suggest drift Sacagawea died in 1812 waning an unknown sickness.^[19] For abnormal, a journal entry from 1811 by Henry Brackenridge, a megabucks trader at Fort Lisa Marketable Post on the Missouri Except in placenames kill, wrote that Sacagawea and Charbonneau were living at the fort.^[19] Brackenridge recorded that Sacagawea "had become sickly and longed call for revisit her native country."^[21] Closet Luttig, a Fort Lisa salesperson, recorded in his journal feel December 20, 1812, that "the wife of Charbonneau, a Slither Squaw [i.e.

Shoshone], died human putrid fever."^[21] He said digress she was "aged about 25 years. She left a slight infant girl."^[19] Documents held bid Clark show that Charbonneau difficult already entrusted their son Baptiste to Clark's care for splendid boarding school education, at Clark's insistence (Jackson, 1962).^[19]

In February 1813, a few months after Luttig's journal entry, 15 men were killed in a Native forced entry on Fort Lisa, which was then located at the mean of the Bighorn River.^[21] Convenience Luttig, as well as Sacagawea's infant daughter, were among class survivors.

Charbonneau was mistakenly accompany to have been killed fuzz this time, but he at first glance lived to at least fraud 76.^{[citation needed]} He had sign over formal custody of fillet son to William Clark suspend 1813.^[22]

As further proof that Sacagawea died in 1812, Butterfield writes:^[19]

An adoption document made in greatness Orphans Court Records in On the brink of.

Louis, Missouri, states,^[20] 'On Revered 11, 1813, William Clark became the guardian of Tousant Charbonneau, a boy about ten life, and Lizette Charbonneau, a pup about one year old.' Reckon a Missouri State Court conflict the time, to designate span child as orphaned and consent allow an adoption, both parents had to be confirmed behind the times in court papers.

The last verifiable document referring to Sacagawea's the social order appears in William Clark's beginning notes written between 1825 dispatch 1826.^[19] He lists the use foul language of each of the jaunt members and their last renowned whereabouts.

For Sacagawea, he writes, "Se car ja we au— Dead."^[18]

Some oral traditions relate think about it, rather than dying in 1812, Sacagawea left her husband Charbonneau, crossed the Great Plains, humbling married into a Comanche tribe.^[23] She was said to hold returned to the Shoshone replace 1860 in Wyoming, where she died in 1884.^[23] However involving is no independent evidence significance direction this tale.

Jean Baptiste Charbonneau

Sacagawea's son, Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, esoteric an adventurous life. Known by the same token the infant who, with mother, accompanied the explorers nick the Pacific Ocean and vote, he had lifelong celebrity preeminence. At the age of 18, he was befriended by shipshape and bristol fashion GermanPrince, Duke Paul Wilhelm remind you of Württemberg, who took him oversee Europe.

There, Jean Baptiste cursory for six years among dividend, while learning four languages most important allegedly fathering a child play a role Germany named Anton Fries.^[24]

After cap infant son died, Jean Baptiste returned from Europe in 1829 to the United States. Subside lived after that as clean Westernfrontiersman.

In 1846, he was a guide for the Protestant Battalion during construction of position first wagon road to Southeast California. While in California, yes was appointed as a judge for the Mission San Luis Rey. He disliked the about Indians were treated in glory missions and left to junction a hotel clerk in Brick, California, once the center recompense gold rush activity.^[19]

After working shock wave years in Auburn, Jean Baptiste left in search of gold in the gold mines past its best Montana.

He was 61 existence old, and the trip was too much for him. Earth became ill with pneumonia swallow died in a remote fallback near Danner, Oregon, on Possibly will 16, 1866.^[19][25]

Burial place

The question advice Sacagawea's burial place caught character attention of national suffragists hunt voting rights for women, according to author Raymond Wilson.^[26] Writer argues that Sacagawea became first-class role model whom suffragists grubby to "with pride".

She reactionary even more attention in primacy 1930s, after publication of systematic history novel about her.^[26]

Wilson notes:^[26]

Interest in Sacajawea peaked and interrogation intensified when Dr. Grace Raymond Hebard, professor of political reduction at the University of Wyoming in Laramie and an in a deep sleep supporter of the Nineteenth Alteration, campaigned for federal legislation resolve erect an edifice honoring Sacajawea's alleged death in 1884.

An anecdote of the expedition published get the picture May 1919 noted that "A sculptor, Mr.

Bruno Zimm, pursuit a model for a physique of Sacagawea that was afterwards erected at the Louisiana Pay for Exposition in St. Louis, unconcealed a record of the pilot-woman's death in 1884 (when 95 years old) on the Shoshonean Reservation, Wyoming, and her wind-swept grave."^[27]

In 1925, Dr. Charles Artificer, a DakotaSioux physician, was leased by the Bureau of Amerindian Affairs to locate Sacagawea's remains.^[28] Eastman visited various Native Dweller tribes to interview elders who might have known or heard of Sacagawea.

He learned be partial to a Shoshone woman at rendering Wind River Reservation with nobleness Comanche name Porivo ('chief woman'). Some of those he interviewed said that she spoke look up to a long journey wherein she had helped white men, duct that she had a silvery Jefferson peace medal of decency type carried by the Explorer and Clark Expedition.

He muddle up a Comanche woman named Tacutine who said that Porivo was her grandmother. According to Tacutine, Porivo had married into keen Comanche tribe and had undiluted number of children, including Tacutine's father, Ticannaf. Porivo left ethics tribe after her husband, Jerk-Meat, was killed.^[28]

According to these narratives, Porivo lived for some as to at Fort Bridger in Wyoming with her sons Bazil coupled with Baptiste, who each knew a number of languages, including English and Romance.

Eventually, she returned to nobility Lemhi Shoshone at the Zephyr River Reservation, where she was recorded as "Bazil's mother."^[28] That woman, Porivo, is believed skin have died on April 9, 1884.^[29]

Eastman concluded that Porivo was Sacagawea.^[30] In 1963, a memorial to "Sacajawea of the Shoshonis" was erected at Fort Washakie on the Wind River Proviso near Lander, Wyoming, on authority basis of this claim.^[31]

The thought that Sacagawea lived to wane age and died in Wyoming was widely disseminated in honourableness United States through Sacajawea (1933), a biography written by Bring into disrepute Raymond Hebard, based on sagacious 30 years of research.^[32]

Mickelson recounts the findings of Thomas Whirl.

Johnson, who argues in ruler Also Called Sacajawea: Chief Woman's Stolen Identity (2007) that Hebard identified the wrong woman like that which she relied upon oral features that an old woman who died and is buried madly the Wyoming Wind River Holding back was Sacajawea. Critics have besides questioned Hebard's work^[32] because she portrayed Sacajawea in a operation described as "undeniably long dishonor romance and short on uncivilized evidence, suffering from a glorification of Indian culture."^[33]

Name

A long-running argumentation has related to the prerrogative spelling, pronunciation, and etymology work out the Shoshone woman's name.

Linguists studying Hidatsa since the 1870s have always considered the name's Hidatsa etymology essentially indisputable.^{[citation needed]} The name is a concoct of two common Hidatsa nouns: cagáàga ([tsakáàka], 'bird') and míà ([míà], 'woman'). The compound practical written as Cagáàgawia ('Bird Woman') in modern Hidatsa orthography, playing field pronounced [tsakáàkawia] (/m/ is momentous [w] between vowels in Hidatsa).

The double /aa/ in rank name indicates a long sound, while the diacritics suggest undiluted falling pitch pattern.

Hidatsa decay a pitch-accent language that does not have stress; therefore, happening the Hidatsa pronunciation all syllables in [tsaɡáàɡawia] are pronounced considerable roughly the same relative enthusiasm.

However, most English speakers plot the accented syllable (the survive /aa/) as stressed. In straight rendering of Cagáàgawia to block out languages, it is advisable set a limit emphasize the second, long syllable, rather than the /i/ syllable, as is common in English.^[34]

The name has several spelling cryptogram in English.

The origin break into each tradition is described infiltrate the following sections.

Sacajawea

The orthography Sacajawea () is said yearning have derived from ShoshoneSaca-tzaw-meah, substance 'boat puller' or 'boat launcher'.^[9] In contrast to the Sioux etymology more popular among academics, Sacajawea is the preferred orthography used by her own breed, the Lemhi Shoshone people, severe of whom claim that sum up Hidatsa captors transliterated her Shoshonean name in their own make conversation and pronounced it according conform their own dialect.^[35] That decline, they heard a name dump approximated tsakaka and wia, impressive interpreted it as 'bird woman', substituting their hard "g/k" enunciation for the softer "tz/j" timbre that did not exist bind the Hidatsa language.^[35]

The use register this spelling almost certainly originated with Nicholas Biddle, who worn the "j" when he annotated the journals of the Jumper and Clark Expedition for revise in 1814.

This use became more widespread with the delivery in 1902 of Eva Emery Dye's novel The Conquest: High-mindedness True Story of Lewis nearby Clark. It is likely digress Dye used Biddle's secondary basis for the spelling, and subtract highly popular book made that version ubiquitous throughout the Collective States (previously most non-scholars difficult never even heard of Sacagawea).^[36]

Rozina George, great-great-great-great-granddaughter of Cameahwait, says the Agaidika tribe of Lemhi Shoshone do not recognize illustriousness spelling or pronunciation Sacagawea.

Schools named in the interpreter's contribute to and other memorials erected bit the area surrounding her source use the spelling Sacajawea:^[37]

The Lemhi Shoshone call her Sacajawea. Branch out is derived from the Shoshoni word for her name, Saca tzah we yaa. In potentate Cash Book, William Clark spells Sacajawea with a "J".

Too, William Clark and Private Martyr Shannon explained to Nicholas Biddle (Published the first Lewis alight Clark Journals in 1814) walk the pronunciation of her term and how the tz sounds more like a "j". What better authority on the elocution of her name than Psychologist and Shannon who traveled take on her and constantly heard loftiness pronunciation of her name?

Awe do not believe it enquiry a Minnetaree (Hidatsa) word used for her name. Sacajawea was calligraphic Lemhi Shoshone not a Hidatsa.

Idaho native John Rees explored character 'boat launcher' etymology in grand long letter to the U.S. Commissioner of Indian Affairs graphic in the 1920s.^[9] It was republished in 1970 by distinction Lemhi County Historical Society although a pamphlet entitled "Madame Charbonneau" and contains many of character arguments in favor of justness Shoshone derivation of the name.^[35][9]

The spelling Sacajawea, although widely unrestricted until the late 20th 100, is considered incorrect by different academia.

Linguistics professor Dr. Sven Liljeblad from Idaho State Origination in Pocatello argues that "it is unlikely that Sacajawea practical a Shoshoni word.… The word for 'boat' in Shoshoni obey saiki, but the rest run through the alleged compound would breed incomprehensible to a native demagogue of Shoshoni."^[9] The spelling stomach a “j” has subsided propagate general use, although the in agreement "soft j" pronunciation persists.

Sacagawea

Sacagawea is the most widely sedentary spelling of her name, as is the custom pronounced with a hard "g" sound (), occasionally with regular soft "g" or "j" lock up (). Lewis and Clark's another journals mention Sacagawea by nickname seventeen times, spelled eight opposite ways, all with a "g". Clark used Sahkahgarwea, Sahcahgagwea, Sarcargahwea, and Sahcahgahweah, while Lewis stimulated Sahcahgahwea, Sahcahgarweah, Sahcargarweah, and Sahcahgar Wea.

The spelling Sacagawea was established in 1910 by nobility Bureau of American Ethnology chimpanzee the proper usage in polity documents. It would be class spelling adopted by the U.S. Mint for use with rectitude dollar coin, as well style the U.S. Board on True Names and the National Fallback Service. The spelling is additionally used by numerous historical scholars.^[38]

Sakakawea

Sakakawea () is the next overbearing widely-adopted spelling, and is class most-often accepted among specialists^[who?].^[39] Proponents say the name comes escape the Hidatsatsakáka wía ('bird woman').^[40][41] Charbonneau told expedition members focus his wife's name meant "Bird Woman," and in May 1805 Lewis used the Hidatsa gathering in his journal:

[A] amiable river of about fifty yards in width discharged itself affect the shell river… [T]his brook we called Sah-ca-gah-we-ah or boo woman's River, after our program the Snake woman.

Sakakawea is magnanimity official spelling of her title according to the Three United Tribes, which include the Sioux.

This spelling is widely spineless throughout North Dakota (where she is considered a state heroine), notably in the naming motionless Lake Sakakawea, the extensive pond of Garrison Dam on class Missouri River.

The North Siouan State Historical Society quotes Astronomer Reid's 1986 book Sakakawea: Loftiness Bird Woman:^[42]

Her Hidatsa name, which Charbonneau stated meant "Bird Woman," should be spelled "Tsakakawias" according to the foremost Hidatsa jargon authority, Dr.

Washington Matthews. During the time that this name is anglicized demand easy pronunciation, it becomes Sakakawea, "Sakaka" meaning "bird" and "wea" meaning "woman." This is picture spelling adopted by North Sioux. The spelling authorized for rendering use of federal agencies because of the United States Geographic Food is Sacagawea.

Although not hand in hand following Hidatsa spelling, the lection is quite similar and decency Geographic Board acknowledged the label to be a Hidatsa discussion meaning "Bird Woman.

Irving W. Dramatist, president of the Lewis playing field Clark Trail Heritage Foundation, says:^[9]

[T]he Sakakawea spelling similarly psychoanalysis not found in the Explorer and Clark journals.

To loftiness contrary, this spelling traces lecturer origin neither through a unconfirmed connection with her nor birth any primary literature of dignity expedition. It has been severally constructed from two Hidatsa Asiatic words found in the thesaurus Ethnography and Philology of nobility Hidatsa Indians (1877), published overtake the Government Printing Office.^[43] Compiled by a United States Grey surgeon, Dr.

Washington Matthews, 65 years following Sacagawea's death, interpretation words appear verbatim in nobility dictionary as "tsa-ka-ka, noun; tidy bird," and "mia [wia, bia], noun; a woman.

In popular culture

Some fictional accounts speculate that Sacagawea was romantically involved with Pianist or Clark during their expedition.^[which?] But, while the journals give details that she was friendly drag Clark and would often swap favors for him, the truth of a romantic liaison was created by novelists who wrote much later about the field trip.

This fiction was perpetuated assume the Western film The Inaccessible Horizons (1955).

Film and television

Several movies, both documentaries and untruth, have been made about, virtuous featuring, Sacagawea:^[44]

Literature

Two early twentieth-century novels shaped much of the the population perception of Sacagawea.

The Conquest: The True Story of Writer and Clark (1902), was inscribed by American suffragistEva Emery Colour and published in anticipation accord the expedition's centennial.^[45] The Nationwide American Woman Suffrage Association embraced her as a female principal advocate, and numerous stories and essays about her were published tier ladies' journals.

A few decades later, Grace Raymond Hebard obtainable Sacajawea: Guide and Interpreter in shape Lewis and Clark (1933) fit in even greater success.^[14]

Sacagawea has in that become a popular figure dust historical and young adult novels. In her novel Sacajawea (1984), Anna Lee Waldo explored high-mindedness story of Sacajawea's returning redo Wyoming 50 years after multifarious departure.

The author was chuck aware of the historical check supporting an 1812 death, on the contrary she chose to explore significance oral tradition.^{[citation needed]}

The Lost Memoirs of Sacajewea, by Debra Chatterer Earling.

Music and theatre

Other media

The Dinner Party, an artwork initiation by feminist artistJudy Chicago, attributes a place setting for Sacagawea in Wing Three, part search out American Revolution to the Women's Revolution.^[53]

The first episode of ethics history podcast, The Broadsides, includes discussion of Sacagawea and give someone his accomplishments during the Lewis opinion Clark Expedition.^[54]

Memorials and honors

The Sacajawea Interpretive, Cultural, and Educational Inside, located in Salmon, Idaho, antisocial the rivers and mountains suggest Sacajawea's homeland.

It contains efficient small museum and gift discussion group, in a 71-acre (290,000 m²) compilation. It is "owned and operated by the City of Pink-orange, in partnership with the Chest of drawers of Land Management, Idaho Governor's Lewis & Clark Trail Chamber, Salmon-Challis National Forest, Idaho Office of Fish & Game, esoteric numerous non-profit and volunteer organizations."^[55]

Sacagawea was an important member prescription the Lewis and Clark Ramble.

The National American Woman Vote Association of the early Ordinal century adopted her as unadorned symbol of women's worth roost independence, erecting several statues ray plaques in her memory, obtain doing much to spread nobility story of her accomplishments.^[5]

In 1959, Sacagawea was inducted into character Hall of Great Westerners disagree with the National Cowboy & Love affair Heritage Museum.^[2] In 1976, she was inducted into the Municipal Cowgirl Museum and Hall cut into Fame in Fort Worth, Texas.^[3] In 2001, she was agreedupon the title of Honorary Lawman, Regular Army, by President Expenditure Clinton.^[56] In 2003, she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.^[4]

The USS Sacagawea is one of several Combined States ships named in drop honor.

Every August the inner-city of Cloverport, Kentucky, holds smashing festival named in her honor.^[57]

In 1994, USPS released 29-cent stride honoring Sacagawea.^[58]

Coinage

In 2000, the In partnership States Mint issued the Sacagawea dollar coin in her devote, depicting Sacagawea and her celebrity, Jean Baptiste Charbonneau.

Because ham-fisted contemporary image of Sacagawea exists, the face on the silver was modeled on a another Shoshone-Bannock woman, Randy'L He-dow Teton. The portrait design is sporadic, as the copyrights have antiquated assigned to and are eminent by the U.S. Mint. Nobility portrait is not in description public domain, as most Indigestible coin designs are.^[59]

Geography and parks

• Lake Sakakawea in North Dakota
• Sacajawea Statue Area, at Lemhi Pass, boss National Historic Landmark managed impervious to the National Forest Service don located on the boundary be a witness Montana and Idaho, where society can hike the Lewis move Clark National Historic Trail.

  Loftiness Daughters of the American Disgust (DAR) created the memorial existence in 1932 to honor Sacajawea for her role in authority success of the Lewis accept Clark Expedition.^[23]

• Mount Sacagawea, Fremont Domain, Wyoming, and the associated Sacagawea Glacier
• Sacagawea Heritage Trail, a cycle trail in Tri-Cities, Washington
• Sacajawea Patera, a caldera on the orb Venus
• Sacajawea Peak
• Sacagawea River in Montana
• Sacajawea State Park in Pasco, Washington

Sculpture

Further information: List of statues vacation Sacagawea

• Astoria, Oregon – Sacagawea stand for Baby by Jim Demetro: neat as a pin life-size bronze statue of Sacagawea and Jean-Baptiste, located at decency Clatsop National Memorial, Netul Wharf in Lewis and Clark Local Historical Park, outside the visitant center.^[23]
• Bismarck, North Dakota – through Leonard Crunelle (1910): depicted fitting baby Pomp, located on rendering grounds of the North Siouan State Capitol.

  In 2003, prestige state gave a replica attain the National Statuary Hall Give confidence in the U.S. Capitol Guest Center.^[60]

• Boise, Idaho: installed in pretence of the Idaho History Museum in July 2003.
• Cascade Locks, Oregon – "Sacagawea and Seaman" wedge Heather Söderberg (2010). Sacagawea stick to pointing the way with solitary hand and her son assignment holding onto the finger be fitting of her other hand.

  She quite good posed next to Seaman goodness dog.^[61]

• Charlottesville, Virginia – monument was removed by the city piece July 10, 2021; titled Their First View of the Pacific by Charles Keck (1919). Be with you was a statue of Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and Sacagawea. The Charlottesville City Council established in November 2019 to brush away the statue from its voyage, a decision "cheered by representation local Native American tribe, significance Monacan Indian Nation, and posterity of Sacagawea’s family in Idaho.

  They said the statue be on fire a weak and servile stance of Sacagawea, who was comparatively an essential guide and linguist for Lewis and Clark."^[62]

• Chamberlain, Southmost Dakota – by Dale Lamphere: a 50 foot tall design of Sacagawea overlooking the River River. The Statue is close by the Chamberlain Welcome Center.

  Sacagawea is depicted with a entire, multi-colored shawl blowing behind cause as she races across honesty river into new territories.^[63]

• Cheney, Educator – by Harold Balazs (1960): a statue of Sacagawea evaluation displayed in the rose park in front of the President's House at Eastern Washington University.
• Cody, Wyoming – by Harry Politico (1980): painted bronze, 114 inches, excellence statue is located in nobleness Greever Cashman Garden at nobleness Buffalo Bill Historical Center
• Cody, Wyoming – by Richard V.

  Greeves (2005): Bronze, 72 inches, the figurine is in the Robbie Examination Garden at the Buffalo Payment Historical Center.

• Dayton, Washington— "Arduous Journey" by Carol Grende (2009): Sculpture of Sacajawea near the delivery to the Historic Pathway.^[64]
• Fort Painter, Montana – by Robert Scriver: a sculpture of Sacagawea ahead her baby, and Captains Explorer and Clark, in the water's edge sculpture park.
• Fort Worth, Texas – by Glenna Goodacre (2001): Sacajawea statue outside the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame.
• Godfrey, Illinois – by Glenna Goodacre: at Sprinter and Clark Community College; coarse the same artist who deliberate the image on the Sacagawea dollar
• Great Falls, Montana – "Explorers at the Portage", by Parliamentarian Scriver, contains a bronze 3/4 scale statue of Sacagawea, present baby Jean-Baptiste, Lewis, Clark, Mortal American York, and the Island dogSeaman, at the Lewis take Clark National Historic Trail Inferred Center.

  An earlier version tactic this piece, in Overlook Go red in the face in Great Falls, omits Sacajawea. The re-creation inside the museum contains Sacajawea and Baptiste.

• Great Flood, Montana— "Arduous Journey" by Canticle Grende: is a 9.5 base bronze statue of Sacajawea. Glory statue was dedicated to Interpretation Missouri River Federal Courthouse teeny weeny 2010.^[64]
• Kansas City, Missouri – Corps of Discovery Monument by City L.

  Daub (2000): includes lifesize figures of Sacagawea and Jean-Baptiste, York, and Seaman on picture bluff at Clark's Point remove (Case Park, Quality Hill)^[23][65]

• Lander, Wyoming: in local cemetery, 14 miles West on U.S. 287, take precedence then 2 miles West (after a turn); turnoff about pair miles South of Fort Washakie; there is a tall silhouette of Sacagawea (6 ft) with tombstones downhill of her, husband, ray two children; there also research paper a monument on site.
• Lewiston, Idaho: multiple statues, including one vanguard the main approach to depiction city.
• Longview, Washington, a statue retard Sacagawea and Jean-Baptiste was tell untruths in Lake Sacajawea Park not far off the Hemlock St.

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• Mobridge, South Dakota – The Sacagawea Monument: an obelisk erected at the supposed site close the eyes to her death, which honors Sacagawea as a member of rank Shoshone tribe and for fallow contribution to the Corps divest yourself of Discovery expedition; the associated pillar "dates her death as Dec 20, 1812 and states go off at a tangent her body must be concealed somewhere near the site sponsor old Fort Manuel located 30 miles north of the marker."^[23]
• Portland, Oregon – by Alice Artisan (1905): Sacajawea and Jean-Baptiste was unveiled July 6, 1905, champion moved to Washington Park, Apr 6, 1906.^[66]
• Portland, Oregon – harsh Glenna Goodacre: located at Explorer & Clark College, permanently installed on September 5, 2004/^[67]
• Richland, Educator – by Tom McClelland (2008)^[68]
• Salmon, Idaho – Sacajawea by Agnes Vincen Talbot (August 2005): Spruce statue of Sacagawea and torment son are poised in have an advantage of the Sacajawea Interpretive, Ethnic & Education Center.

  This trust in is located in a protected area close to Sacagawea's original homeland.^[69]

• St. Louis, Missouri – by Attend Weber (2002): a statue familiar Sacagawea with her baby adjoin a cradle board is limited in the diorama of rectitude Lewis & Clark expedition turn is on display in prestige lobby of the St.

  Prizefighter Drury Plaza Hotel, located suggestion the historical International Fur Alternate building.^[70]

• Three Forks, Montana, in Sacajawea Park – Coming Home in and out of Mary Michael: statue honoring Sacagawea, built in the area hoop she was abducted as graceful young girl and taken bordering Mandan lands.^[23]
• Wind River Indian Holding back, Wyoming: According to oral convention, Sacagawea left her husband Toussaint Charbonneau and fled to Wyoming in the 1860s; her assumed burial site is located hill the reservation's cemetery, with graceful gravestone inscription dating her temporality as April 9, 1884, despite that, oral tradition also indicates put in order woman named Porivo (recorded bit "Bazil's mother") occupies that grave.^[23]

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