Sacagawea was one tough lady. When she was a teenage mom, this Shoshone explorer tied her baby to her back and fearlessly travelled westward across America as part of Lewis and Clark’s famous ...

In 1974, Congress established a national historic site where the Knife River meets the Missouri River in central North Dakota. For centuries, Native American tribes lived in the area, growing crops ...

The U.S. Mint introduced the Sacagawea golden dollar in 2000 and it remains in circulation today. The coin commemorates the Native guide and mother for her singular and essential contribution to ...

The story of Sacagawea that most of us know is incomplete and not entirely correct. The Hidatsa tribe and other tribes have a long oral history that tells a different story of her life, including that ...

One of the foundational stories in American history is that of Lewis and Clark's two-year expedition that began in 1805, from Missouri to the Oregon coast and back, and the Native American teenager ...

Most rare coins experts expect these to become the most valuable modern coins ever sold, Stack's Bowers Galleries claimed. The mission, STS-93, most prominently helped deploy the Chandra X-Ray ...

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WASHINGTON, D.C., July 24, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- In celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Sacagawea Golden Dollar, the United States Mint (Mint) is proud to offer a 24-karat one half-ounce ...

Often remembered merely for guiding Lewis and Clark, Sacagawea’s story is far more complex. Discover the deeper story behind the life of this Shoshone woman—beyond the expedition. Explorer Sacagawea ...