The first and third images are two different views of the famous Sacagawea statue located in Bismarck, North Dakota. The middle image is of a statue in Washington Park in Portland, Oregon. Both statues depict Sacagawea with her baby, Jean Baptiste.

Sacagawea: National Icon
Today there are reportedly more statues of Sacagawea than of any other American woman. Many of them were erected early in the last century with the support of local women's clubs and suffragists like Susan B. Anthony. Several of these monuments — like the lovely one in Portland, Oregon's Washington Park in which Sacagawea resembles a winged victory — make her look older than she was during the expedition, and grander, not a teenager dragged along but a woman who led.

Her role in the journey, as interpreter for Lewis and Clark, has secured her place in American history. Because she was a woman and an Indian, she is especially important to feminist and Native American cultural identity.