Semi-weekly herald. [volume] (Durango, Colo.) 1907-1917, 1910-03-07
SHAFT TO A souAW
WILL BE RAISED BY
WOMEN OF DAKOTA
cBy william E. curfis' orresponden,

CBy William E. Curtis, correspondent
! of the Chicago Record-Herald
WASHINGToN.-The women OK
North Dakota are about to erect /,
monument in front of the capitol build.
| ing at Bismarck in honor of Sakaia.
wea tBirdwoman). the Shoshone guide
of Lewis and Clark across the Rocky
mountains in 1904 There is ALREADY
| a beautiful statue of this heroine I'm
the park at Portland, Ore, made by a
Chicago woman artist, with funds rails.
ed through the efforts of Mrs. Eva
Emery Dye and others, at the time of
the Portland exposition. But Sakaia.
wea is entitled to all the honors that
can be paid her.
The new statue for Bimarck was de
signed by Leonard Crunelle and the
clay model is now in the studio of
Frederick C. Hubbard, 923 East SIKH
eth street, Chicago. 1t is of heroic
size, nine feet tall. and depicts an
Indian woman muffled in a blanket,
with a papoose upon her back. and her
right arm extended as If pointing ont
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 visited
Chicago to inspect and criticise the
statue. The bronze will be cast next
June or July, and will then be shin.
ped TO its destination The Legislature
Of North Dakota has appropriated
money for granite pedestal. which
Will be placed about half mile from
the Missouri river so that the figure
viii face that stream. 1t is expected
that the statue will be in place ready
for unwilling in October.
The money TO pay for the statue was
raised by the Federation of Women
Clubs in North Dakota and by the
school children of that state The rea
sons why the women and children
should erect statue to Saskajawea
are given in laconic terms in little
circular published by the women's fed
GRAFTON.
l. Saskajawea was the first North
Dakotan whose name was enrolled on
the pages of history
2. II is proper that we mark his
toric spots in our young and rising
commonwealth.
3. Sakajawea was the only woman
to accompany the Lewis and Clark
expedition.
4. She was their guide and inter.
prefer.
5. She protected them when threat.
ened by hostile Indians
G. She procured for them food and
horses when they were destitute OF
both.
Z. She saved their journals and val
liable papers al the risk of her own
life.
s. She was the only one of the
party who received no pecuniary com
! pensation for her services.
8. While enduring hardships and
suffering, she administered TO the ne.
cessities of others
TO- She welcomed with intelligent
appreciation the civilization of the
white race, and was the first Indian
west of the Missouri river known TO
embrace Christianity
II. She was the first pioneer mother
TO cross the Rocky mountains and car
ry her baby into the Oregon country.
The women of North Dakota have
good historical ground for claiming
Sakajawea as fellow citizen, be
cause, although she was 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
III years old, was brought up by them,
wrose their costume and the name
they bestowed upon her-Tsa-ka-ka.
wi-ash. which means bird woman"
The name is often spelled Sa-ka-ka
(bird) Wia-a (woman). After the re-
turn of Lewis and Clark to the east
she went to her own tribe. whose head.
quarters 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 reservation,
and her son, known as "Old Brazil"
has been quite prominent in tribal af-
fairs.
WHAT WILL CITY DO WITHOUT