The Washington Post, April 14th, 2000
In his letter of April 6, James E. Roberson ridicules the Treasury Department for spelling the name of the woman pictured on the new dollar coin as "Sacagawea" rather than "Sacajawea," given that her body is buried in Sacajawea Cemetery. According to Lewis and Clark scholar Irving W. Anderson, the form "Sacagawea" most accurately represents the historical name. All 14 references to the name in Lewis and Clark's journals are spelled with a "g" in the third syllable, no matter how their spelling of the name may have varied otherwise. Lewis and Clark also said that the name meant "bird woman," wh...
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