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Monument In Memory Of Saka-
jaWea viii Be Erected.

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iaWea viii Be Erected.
| LEWIS AND CLARHKS GUIDE.
Design by Leonard CruneIe Is of He
roic Size-Bronze Statue Will Rest on
a Granite Pedestal and Face Missouri
River-Funds Raised by CIubwornen
and School Children.
The women of North Dakota are
about to erect a monument in front
Of the capitol building at Bismarck in
honor of sakajaWea bird woman), the
Shoshone guide of Lewis and Clark
across the Rocky mountains in 1904.
There is already a beautiful statue Of
this heroine in the park at Portland,
Ore, made by a Chicago woman artist
with funds raised through the efforts
of Mrs. Eva Emery Dye and others
at the time of the Portland exposition,
but SakajaWea is entitled to all the
honors that can be paid her.
The new statue for Bismarck was
designed by Leonard Crunelle, and the
clay model, which is in Chicago, is of
heroic size, nine feet tall, and depicts
an Indian woman mufded in a blanket,
with a papoose upon her back, and her
right arm extended as if pointing out
the way. ME-. Crunelle visited the In
dian reservation at Elbow Woods, N.
D., two years ago to study and sketch
Indian figures and costumes and has
had the advice of Spotted Weasel and
James Holding Eagle, who have Wis
tied Chicago to inspect and criticise
the statue. The bronze will be cast
next June or July and will be then
shipped to it's destination. The legis-
lature of North Dakota has appropri-
ated money for a granite pedestal.
which will be placed about half a mile
from the Missouri river so that the fig-
ure will face that stream It is expect
ed that the statue will be in place ready
for unveiling in October
Reasons For Erecting the Statue.
The money. to pay for the statue was
raised by the Federation of Women's
Clubs in North Dakota and by the
al o. I,o4 H11,e
sons why the women and children
should erect statue to SakajaWea are
given in laconic terms in a little circu-
lar published by the women's fedora
ton:
First.-sakajawea was the first North
pages of history.
: Second.-It is proper that we mark his
torlc spots in our young and rising com
monwealth.
Third-Sakajawea was the only woman
to accompany the Lewis and Clark ex-
petition.
Fourth.-She was their guide and inter
prefer.
Fifth.-She protected them when threat
ened by hostile Indians.
S1xth.-She procured for them food and
horses when they were destitute of both.
Seventh.-She saved their journals and
valuable papers at the risk of her own
life.
Eighth.-She was the only one of the.
party who received no pecuniary compen-
sation for her services
Ninth.-While enduring hardships and
suffering she administered to the neces-
sites Of others.
Tenth.-she welcomed with Intelligent
appreciation the civilization of the white.
race and was the first Indian west Of the
Missouri river known to embrace Chris
tianity.
Eleventh.-She was the first pioneer
mother to cross the Rocky mountains and
carry her baby into the Oregon country
Claimed by North Dakota.
The women of North Dakota have
good historical ground for claiming
SakajaWea as a fellow citizen, be-
cause, although she was a Shoshone
by birth and that tribe lived farther
west in the, mountains of Wyoming,
she was captured by the Gros Ventre
Indians of North Dakota when she
was eleven years old, was brought up
by them, wore their costume and the
name they bestowed upon her-Tsa-
ka-ka-Wi-ash which means S'bird wo-
man." The name is often spelled Sa-
ka-ka (birD Wia-a (woman). After
the return of Lewis and Clark to the
east she went to her own tribe, whose
headquarters We're near the present
City of Lander, Wyo., and there lived
until her death in 1884 at the supposed
age Of 125 years. She is buried in
the Episcopal cemetery near the
agency. Several of her descendants
are now living on the Shoshone reser-
walton, and her son, known as ssOld
Brazil has been quite prominent in
tribal affairs.-William e. Curtis in
Chicago Record Herald
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