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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- Shoshone guide and interpreter who accompanied (1805–1806) the Lewis and Clark expedition.
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- noun US A
gold -coloreddollar coin with an image of the girl Sacagawea on theobverse . - proper noun The historic Native American girl who led explorers Lewis and Clark across the United States.
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- noun the Shoshone guide and interpreter who guided the Lewis and Clark expedition part of the way
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Examples
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He liked to think that Janey, as he called Sacagawea, had a kind of fondness for him too.
The Berrybender Narratives Larry McMurtry 2004
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The female options are slim, but there are dolls for people such as Sacagawea, Cleopatra, Shuttle Pilot Sally (Ride) and Doctor Elizabeth (Blackwell).
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"Sacagawea" design by sculptor Glenna Goodacre, first produced in 2000.
unknown title 2009
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"Sacagawea" design by sculptor Glenna Goodacre, first produced in 2000.
unknown title 2009
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"Sacagawea" design by sculptor Glenna Goodacre, first produced in 2000.
unknown title 2009
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"Sacagawea" design by sculptor Glenna Goodacre, first produced in 2000.
unknown title 2009
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Kit put a Sacagawea dollar in the donation box before she approached the sisters, who, though on the small side, managed to loom like holy skyscrapers in their grayish-blue habits.
Slice Of Cherry Dia Reeves 2011
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Kit put a Sacagawea dollar in the donation box before she approached the sisters, who, though on the small side, managed to loom like holy skyscrapers in their grayish-blue habits.
Slice Of Cherry Dia Reeves 2011
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Focusing on the emblematic moments of the participants 'lives, the story unfolds through the perspectives of four competing voices-from the troubled and mercurial figure of Meriwether Lewis, the expedition leader who found that it was impossible to enter paradise without having it crumble around him, to Sacagawea, the Shoshone girl - captive and interpreter for the expedition, whose short life mirrored the disruptive times in which she lived.
I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company by Brian Hall: Book summary 2010
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Kit put a Sacagawea dollar in the donation box before she approached the sisters, who, though on the small side, managed to loom like holy skyscrapers in their grayish-blue habits.
Slice Of Cherry Dia Reeves 2011
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"Some American Indian oral traditions relate that rather than dying in 1812, Sacagawea left her husband Charbonneau, crossed the Great Plains and married into a Comanche tribe. She was said to have returned to the Shoshone in Wyoming, where she died in 1884."
--Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sacagawea&oldid=483777759)
April 5, 2012