Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-04-07
HONOR FOR AN
indian HEROINE
Monument In Memory Of Saka-
iaWea Will Be Erected.
LEWIS AND CLARK'S GUIDE.

Design by Leonard Crunelie Is Of He-
roic Size-Bronze Statue Will Rest on
a Granite Pedestal and Face Missouri
River-Funds Raised by cIubwomen
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 womanl, 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 muflled in blanket,
with n papoose upon her back, and her
right arm extended as If pointing out
the way. Mr.. 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 cr1ticise
the statue. The bronze will be cast
next June or July and will be then
shipped to its destination. The legis-
lature OF North Dakota has appropri-
ated money for granite pedestal,
which Will be placed about half mile
from the Missouri river q that the fig
ure will face that streams 1t 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
school children OF that state. The rea-
sons why the women and children
should erect a statue to Sakajawea are
given in laconic terms In a little circu-
lar published by the women's fedora
ton:
First.-Sakaj jawea was the first North
Dakotan whose name was enrolled on the
| pages of history.
seoond.-It is proper that we mark his
toric spots in our young and rising COM
| monwealth.
Third-Sakajawea was the only woman
/ to accompany the Lewis and Clark ex-
| pedition.
| Fourth.-She was their guide and inter
prefer.
Fifth.-she protected them when threat
| ened by hostile Indians.
Sixth.-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 shs administered to the neces-
stiles 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 GLOSS 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 rs n fellow citizen, he
cause. although she was n ShoshOnc
by birth and that tribe lived farther
west in the mountains of Wyoming,
.I,n a -
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-kawi-ash, which means bird wo-
I man" The name Is often spelled Sa-
ka-ka birdl Wia-a (womaD. After
the return of Lewis and Clark TO the
east she went to her own tribe. whose
headquarters were 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. rNo her son. known rs "Old
Hr"-il." Ea, H"HC gg!te prominent IN
tribal e .,lis.l l.. Curtis In
Chicu-u Ar. yyu-i.cl.,lu.
Largest Crane In the Orient.
Further evidences of the progressive
ness of the Japs is found in the fact
that they recently have purchased in
Great Britain and installed in the Nit
su Bishi dockyard and engine work.
in Nagasaki the largest crane in the
orient and one of the largest in the
world 1t Is 100 ton hammered head