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****************************************** Panel Picks Sacajawea for $1 Coin ****************************************** By STEVE FARR Associated Press Writer PHILADELPHIA (AP) - An advisory panel voted 6-1 to recommend to Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin that its new dollar coin bear the image of ``Liberty, represented by a Native American woman, inspired by Sacajawea and other Native American women.'' An actual portrait of the Shoshone girl who guided Lewis and Clark through the Pacific Northwest 200 years ago won't appear because none are believed to exist. Neither will her name........... The panel also voted to recommend that the word ``Peace'' be included on the coin and that Native American artists and historians be consulted on the design. ............. The choice was a compromise between panel members who wanted to honor a woman of history and those who favored an allegorical symbol. Finalists included Eleanor Roosevelt and black aviation pioneer Bessie Coleman. ``I see Sacajawea as an inspirational source,'' said Patricia McGuire, president of Trinity College in Washington. ``Women have been anonymous too long.'' The new U.S. one dollar coin, scheduled for introduction in 2000, is intended to replace the Susan B. Anthony dollar. One dollar notes will continue to be printed and used. The new dollar coin design continues many long-standing traditions in U.S. coinage of depicting Native Americans on many of the popular United States Coins Sacajawea on the Lewis and Clark Trail ****************************************** The Lewis and Clark Expedition needed a person with experience and could speak the Shoshoni language. French Canadian trapper. Charbonneu offered Sacajawea to the expedition. She was the only woman among thirty-five men and was only sixteen and pregnant with Jean Baptiste (Pompey). The expedition would need to trade and obtain goods and horses from the Indians , and because women would not be in a war party, having her along would prove that the expedition was peaceful. The daughter of a Shoshone chief, Sacagawea was kidnapped by the Hidatsa when she was about ten years old and taken back to their village on the upper Missouri. There, she and another captive girl were purchased and wed by Toussaint Charbonneau, a Mystery surrounds the Shoshoni woman. Even her name is in dispute. She was either known as Sacajawea (Boat Launcher,) Sacagawea (Bird Woman) Whatever her name, she was a remarkable woman. Sacajawea's Grave Location: Fort Washakie, WY. Poem ************************ Submitted by: Carol Mohar (Chickasaw) A woman with tear filled eyes, Raised her arms and face to the skies. She said, Great Powers That Be Please, oh, please, Bring Love To Me. A Kind, wise, gentle soul, And, handsome too, if you don't mind But mostly someone who will like me for who I am. That loves himself, enough to love me. Many years later that woman who was me, Raised her arms and face to the skies To give thanks to the Great Powers That Be, For bringing you to me. 
********************************** " Let us put our minds together to see what we can build for our children." Sitting Bull, 1877
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