Previous versions of the act called for removing from circulation dollar coins issued before the Sacagawea dollar, most notably the Susan B. Anthony dollar, but the version of the act which became law merely directs the Secretary of the Treasury to study the matter and report back to Congress.

* Sacagawea ( c. 1788 – December 20, 1812 ) – accompanied and assisted Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on the Lewis and Clark Expedition ( 1804 – 1806 ), the first American overland expedition to the Pacific coast and back.

* 1805 – Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, son of Sacagawea ( d. 1866 )

They were accompanied by a fifteen-year-old Shoshone Indian woman, Sacagawea, the wife of a French-Canadian fur trader.

Here they met a French-Canadian fur trapper named Toussaint Charbonneau, and his young Shoshone wife Sacagawea, who helped translate.

Because Sacagawea and Clark's slave York were both allowed to participate in the vote, it may have been the first time in American history where a woman and a slave were allowed to vote.

Scholars say she did notice some geographical features, but " Sacagawea ... was not the guide for the Expedition, she was important to them as an interpreter and in other ways.

In the journals, they used the terms " squar " and " savages " to refer to Sacagawea and other indigenous peoples.

Its gold colour differed from the silver-coloured Anthony dollar ; however, the succeeding Sacagawea and Presidential dollars matched the loonie's overall hue.

For instance, in the early 19th century, the Native American woman Sacagawea, who would help translate for the Lewis and Clark Expedition, was married to the French-Canadian trapper Toussaint Charbonneau.

He has also shot at Carl Carlson, robbed Homer of expensive pants, kept Hans Moleman under his bar's floorboards in a subterranean chamber, perpetrated insurance fraud (" Dumbbell Indemnity "), shot Sam in the back for trying to pay in Sacagawea dollars, and stalked various townspeople.

Honored in Three Forks, the Indian woman Sacagawea is best known as the interpreter and guide for the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

A statue of Sacagawea now sits in a park off Main Street.

Clark and several of his companions, including Sacagawea, completed a three day journey on January 10, 1806 to the site of the beached whale.

On October 16, 1805, the Lewis and Clark Expedition camped in the Pasco area, at a site now commemorated by Sacagawea State Park.

Pasco is located along a major stretch of the 22-mile Sacagawea Heritage Trail, an interactive educational and recreational hiking / biking loop that circles the Tri-Cities area.

* Glenna Goodacre, class of ' 61, designer of Sacagawea on the U. S. golden dollar coin

They were accompanied by a fifteen-year-old Shoshone Indian woman, Sacagawea, the wife of a French-Canadian fur trader.

Lisa happened to be at Fort Lisa in North Dakota when Sacagawea, the historic interpreter and guide for the Lewis and Clark Expedition, died at the fort on December 20, 1812.

American West explorers Lewis and Clark hired a Shoshone Indian woman Sacagawea, and Wilfred Thesiger hired guides in the deserts that he ventured into, such as Kuri on his journey to the Tibesti Mountains in 1938.

He is also known as the husband of Sacagawea.

This came about when he purchased two captive Shoshone women: Sacagawea ( Bird Woman ) and " Otter Woman ", from the Hidatsa.

Charbonneau was either sold or given Sacagawea, who was born around 1788, near Lemhi, Idaho.

* December 20 – Sacagawea, Shoshone guide

* Sacagawea dollar ( 2000 – 2008 ): The mintmark is just below the date.

* Sacagawea Dollar ( eagle reverse ) 2000 – 2008

** Sacagawea Dollar ( Native American series ) 2009 – present

During the Lewis and Clark Expedition ( 1804 – 1806 ), which was the first overland expedition undertaken by Americans to the Pacific coast and back, the Shoshone woman Sacagawea was the only woman to accompany the 33 members of the permanent party to the Pacific Ocean and back.

* November 4 – The captains meet Toussaint Charbonneau, a French-Canadian fur trapper living among the Hidatsas with his two Shoshone wives, Sacagawea and Little Otter.

* February 11 – Sacagawea gives birth to Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, the youngest member of the expedition.

* August 17 – A council meets with the Shoshone, during which Sacagawea learns the fate of her family and reveals that Cameahwait is her brother.

With the passage of the Native American $ 1 Coin Act on September 20, 2007, the U. S. Mint began designing a series of Sacagawea dollars with modified reverses to further commemorate " Native Americans and the important contributions made by Indian tribes and individual Native Americans to the development of the United States and the history of the United States ".

The act passed by Congress requires that 20 % of the total dollar coins minted in any year during the Presidential $ 1 Coin Program be Sacagawea dollars bearing the new design.

She was involved in the State Quarters project, the Sacagawea dollar coin project and the first issue of two dollar notes in nearly 20 years.

" The one-third requirement was later changed to one-fifth by the Native American $ 1 Coin Act, passed on September 20, 2007, and Sacagawea dollars were only 0. 8 % of the total dollar coins produced through November 2007.

Evidence suggests that, while Charbonneau was on an expedition with the company in 1812, Sacagawea died at the fort.

Despite having had to reprimand Charbonneau with regard to his duties ( October 27, 1805 ) and having intervened in a marital dispute in which Charbonneau hit his wife ( Sacagawea ) ( August 14 of that year ), Clark offered to set up Charbonneau and his family in St. Louis after the expedition.

* Streams to River, River to the Sea ( a Novel of Sacagawea ), Houghton Mifflin 4 / 1986, ISBN 0-395-40430-0

* USS Sacagawea ( YT-241 ), was a tugboat, launched in 1942 ; acceptance by the Navy was canceled in 1942, but she was retained by the Maritime Commission.

* USS Sacagawea ( YT-326 ), was a tugboat, acquired by the Navy and renamed in 1942, and struck in 1945.

Sacagawea, the Shoshone woman who guided parts of the Lewis and Clark Expedition ( the Corps of Discovery ), led Captain William Clark and his party of ten men through the pass on July 15, 1806.

Aided by a crew of varied, rugged and gristled frontiersmen, they are also joined by their group's version of Sacagawea, a young Indian woman by the name Shaquinna ( Lisa Barbuscia ), who is integral in helping them find their way across the dangerous and unknown terrain ahead, as well as, eventually becoming Edwards ' love interest.