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Sacagawea (/ ˌ s æ k ə dʒ ə ˈ w iː ə / SAK-ə-jə-WEE-ə or / s ə ˌ k ɒ ɡ ə ˈ w eɪ ə / sə-KOG-ə-WAY-ə; also spelled Sakakawea or Sacajawea; May c. 1788 – December 20, 1812) was a Lemhi Shoshone woman who, in her teens, helped the Lewis and Clark Expedition in achieving their chartered mission objectives by exploring the Louisiana Territory.
Marie Aioe Dorion. "Madame" Marie Aioe Dorion Venier Toupin (ca. 1786 – September 5, 1850) was the only female member of an overland expedition sent by Pacific Fur Company to the Pacific Northwest in 1810. Like her first husband, Pierre Dorion Jr., she was Métis. Her mother was of the Iowa people and her father was French Canadian. [1]
Harriet Williams Russell Strong. Harriet Russell Strong ( née Harriet Williams Russell; July 23, 1844 – September 6, 1926) was an American social activist, inventor, businesswoman, conservationist, and leading figure of the early woman's movement. She has been inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame and the National Inventors Hall of ...
Susan B. Anthony II (great-niece) Signature. Susan B. Anthony (born Susan Anthony; February 15, 1820 – March 13, 1906) was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. Born into a Quaker family committed to social equality, she collected anti-slavery petitions at the age ...
Matilda Joslyn Gage (née Joslyn; March 24, 1826 – March 18, 1898) was an American writer and activist.She is mainly known for her contributions to women's suffrage in the United States (i.e., the right to vote) but she also campaigned for Native American rights, abolitionism (the end of slavery), and freethought (the free exercise of reason in matters of religious belief).
List of statues of Sacagawea. Sacajawea and Jean-Baptiste by Alice Cooper is located in Washington Park in Portland, Oregon. Sixteen statues of Sacagawea have been identified. [1] Wanda Pillow claims that "Sacajawea has more statues honoring her than any other U.S. woman, and her sentimentalized image is captured on postcards, stamps, coins ...
The U.S. Mint started issuing the Sacagawea Dollar in 2000 in honor of Sacagawea, the Shoshone Native American who as a teenager helped guide Lewis and Clark on their famous westward expedition.
Parent (s) John St. Pierre. Elizabeth Matilda Menhenick. Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin ( née St. Pierre; August 31, 1842 – March 13, 1924 [1]) was a publisher, journalist, civil rights leader, suffragist, abolitionist, and editor of the Woman's Era, the first national newspaper published by and for African American women.