Sacajawea

Sacajawea

1. Alternative form of Sacagawea.

Sacajawea (plural Sacajaweas)

1. Alternative form of Sacagawea.
   • 2000 April 20, Bob Morris, “Buddy can you spare a two?”, in Casper Star-Tribune, Casper, Wyo., →OCLC, page A11, column 5:

     If we carry two-dollar bills, we’ll never have to carry more than one Sacajawea, and those one-dollar coins will save vending-machines, mass-transit systems, and pay telephones hundreds of millions of dollars more.

   • 2008, Philip J[oseph] Deloria, “From Nation to Neighborhood: Land, Policy, Culture, Colonialism, and Empire in U.S.-Indian Relations”, in James W. Cook, Lawrence B. Glickman, Michael O’Malley, editors, The Cultural Turn in U.S. History: Past, Present, and Future, Chicago, Ill.; London: University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, part III (Agendas for Cultural History), page 343:

     Your fistful of change will likely come in the form of copper-colored one-dollar coins, emblazoned with the image of an American Indian woman named Sacajawea. It is a small irony, but the original twenty dollar bill that brought you the stamps and the Sacajaweas bore the image of Andrew Jackson, primary political architect of the policy of Indian removal.

   • 2015, Claire Vaye Watkins, “Book One”, in Gold Fame Citrus, New York, N.Y.: Riverhead Books, →ISBN, page 74:

     Lonnie shook the Sacajaweas from his hand and let them land noisily on the glass coffee table—ting ting ting—oblivious or indifferent or likely hostile to Ig so near to nap.