Sakakawea
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Bordered by the Yellowstone River to the north, Lake Sakakawea to the east and Montana to the west, McKenzie is larger in land mass than Delaware.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 5, 2021
She drove to the bank of Lake Sakakawea on the edge of Fort Berthold Reservation, in western North Dakota.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 13, 2020
In the exhibition hall, several statues represent Kamehameha I, Hawaii’s first king; Po’pay, who led the Indian Pueblo Revolt; and Sakakawea, who’s better known as Sacagawea and famous for helping the explorers Lewis and Clark.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 21, 2019
In the early 1950s, the US Army Corps of Engineers dammed the Missouri River and created Lake Sakakawea, flooding farmland that belonged to the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara tribes, and swallowing towns whole.
From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2019
Terry Fleck, president of the Friends of Lake Sakakawea group that fought to move oil development further away, said he’d like the regulators who approved drilling there to visit and see the impacts.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 5, 2017
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