Thank you for this Brian. So pleased to see her as your first officially-recognized indigenous person (as Chief Amalgam was…an amalgam…of three men). It is interesting that the US recognizes the spelling of her name as Sacagawea (bird-woman) in the entymology used by her Hidatsa captors rather than Sacajewea (boat-puller), supposedly her given Lemhi Shoshone name, yet the more common pronunciation is that of the debatable Shoshone entymology (saiki means boat, but the rest is gibberish to a native Shoshone speaker).
Thank you for this Brian. So pleased to see her as your first officially-recognized indigenous person (as Chief Amalgam was…an amalgam…of three men). It is interesting that the US recognizes the spelling of her name as Sacagawea (bird-woman) in the entymology used by her Hidatsa captors rather than Sacajewea (boat-puller), supposedly her given Lemhi Shoshone name, yet the more common pronunciation is that of the debatable Shoshone entymology (saiki means boat, but the rest is gibberish to a native Shoshone speaker).