National Sacajawea Day? (12/20)

National Today; Xochitl, Crystal Quintero, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly Wiki edit

Can you lighten me up until I'm remembered as white or like pinkish beige?

Saka Day 2023 to indoctrinate kids

Sacajawea (May circa 1788–Dec. 20, 1812, or April 9, 1884) [2, 3, 4] was a Lemhi Shoshone Native American woman who, in her teens, helped the Lewis and Clark Expedition in achieving their chartered mission objectives by exploring the Louisiana Territory.

SACAGAWEA DAY is celebrated on December 20 each year to honor Sacajawea (\sack-uh-juh-WEE-uh\, originally Sakakawea now Sacagawea). [It's good to get recognition for anything really (better than erasure), but look who they think to honor, a teenager who helped the future country's Anglo settler colonial project: SACAGAWEA DAY - December 20, 2023 - National Today

How can I help sell out my people?

The good looking daughter of a Shoshone chief, making her a princess in the Lemhi band of the Shoshone tribe, is celebrated by whites for the "courage" she exhibited when, at age 16, she acted as an interpreter for an expedition that was exploring the Louisiana Territory, turning her back on Natives and facing a future of white Christian domination. In the early 20th century, white women thanked her by raising her up as a symbol of women, erecting statues and plaques in her memory, and recounting her pro-settler accomplishments.

We want Indian girlfriends, too

Sacajawea traveled with the expedition thousands of miles from North Dakota to the Pacific Ocean, helping establish cultural contacts with different Native American people and contributing to the expedition's knowledge of natural history in different regions.

The National American Woman Suffrage Association of the early 20th century adopted Sacagawea as a symbol of women's worth and independence, erecting several statues and plaques in her memory and doing much to recount her accomplishments [5]. More

• Heritage Days at Sacajawea State Park (12/23/23)

European artist depicts a more Europeanized Stacey "Janey" Jaweeyah and blended child.

Bronze neutralizes her brown color getting her half way there. Now let's use alabaster.

What did she do for colonial invaders (European occupiers) that they even gave her a coin?