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Sakakawea
This statue of Sakakawea, the Shoshone Indian who led Merriwether Lewis and William Clark, is the the seventh of a woman, the first of a mother, and the first of a minority woman to have a permanent spot in National Statuary Hall collection.
The statue is a reproduction of the bronze original dedicated on 13 October 1910, in North Dakota. It features Sakakawea and her baby son facing westward to the land she would help open.