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Sacajawea

American  
[sak-uh-juh-wee-uh] / ˌsæk ə dʒəˈwi ə /
Or Sacagawea

noun

  1. Bird Woman, 1787?–1812?, Shoshone guide and interpreter: accompanied Lewis and Clark expedition 1804–05.


Sacajawea Cultural  
  1. A young Native American woman who guided Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on their expedition to explore territory gained through the Louisiana Purchase. (See Lewis and Clark expedition.)


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Her portrait is stamped on the golden dollar.

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Onik’a Gilliam-Cathcart, a specialist in discrimination and retaliation claims, investigated the incident at Sacajawea Middle School in Spokane.

From Fox News • Aug. 1, 2021

Tananarive Due’s novel “The Good House” in an absorbing epic of malignant supernatural influence centering on a house in the fictional town of Sacajawea, Washington.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 8, 2019

What Lewis and Clark's Indian guide Sacajawea was to American history high school texts, Gunga Din was to third-world movies.

From Salon • Aug. 17, 2019

We are Lewis and Clark and Sacajawea, pioneers who braved the unfamiliar, followed by a stampede of farmers and miners, and entrepreneurs and hucksters.

From Washington Times • Mar. 7, 2015

Charbonneau wanted to remain with the Shoshones, and to keep with him Sacajawea, his wife, so recently reunited to her people.

From The Magnificent Adventure Being the Story of the World's Greatest Exploration and the Romance of a Very Gallant Gentleman by Hough, Emerson

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