Sacagawea is an interesting historical figure. As a teenaged young mother she took her child to the Pacific coast and back. She didn’t guide the expedition, but her presence convinced Indians that the Corps of Discovery wasn’t a war party. She gives her son to Clark to raise...and then disappears from history. No one knows what became of her.
Another shim in the split of our country’s incredible history and the new communist interpretation of revisionism. There’s only two logical conclusions to this age old battle and that is that they win or we fight and purge the system of this progressive disease.
COMMUNIST!
Cultural genocide.
Look forward to Virginia and places like Charlottesville, fall into decay and destruction, as the liberals work their socialist magic there.
Liberals just can't leave well enough alone. And in trying to "fix" something that ain't broke, they make things worse.
She was axed due to ‘guilt by association’.
The result of all these efforts will be to remove evidence that American Indians were ever here.
In Wisconsin, some want a local school to change their mascot from “Indians” to something else, even though the whole community is named after the tribe:
Sacagawea was not an "equal" in that expedition.
I just cannot roll my eyes anymore.
Although, I admit I thought the objection was going to be that Sacagawea was viewed as aiding the invading whites in their genocide of the Native Americans they encountered.
Complete with her distribution of smallpox infested blankets to the ones she betrayed. She did that, right?
I was relieved somewhat to read that they were upset that sculptors creating history a hundred years ago didn’t give her equal footing with Lewis and Clark, not that they viewed her as a turncoat against “her people”.
Whew. Instead of new Leftist Loonery, their objection is the same old feminist crap that even though the commissioners of the work, and the sculptor thought enough to go out of their way to include her, it didn’t make her an equal.
On the other hand, if they had wanted to tear it down due to her collaboration with the genocidal whites, I thought “Hey, Barack Obama’s ancestors hunted down blacks to ship off in the Slave Trade, but nobody holds that against him...”
Replace it with one of Fauxcohantas.
Thought you should be informed of this.
In 1492, Columbus’ interpreter discovered America.
In 1903, the Wright siblings made the first airplane flight.
George Washington was the parent of our country.
Jeffrey Epstein did not kill zurself.
The apple knew about gravity before Sir Isaac Newton.
To revise history you have to include destroying it.
The native American woman who accompanied Lewis and Clark was a brave and resourceful woman. Native Americans have nothing about her to be ashamed of, including her assistance to Lewis and Clark. Lewis and Clark mapped this continent as none before them had done. It was a feat we all can be proud of.
I lived in Charlottesville from 1979-82. It was such a charming place then. I used to enjoy sitting in Lee Park, walking the pedestrian mall, and driving up to visit Monticello. In those days, local residents could visit for free. So sad to see what has happened to this lovely historical area.
Fine. Melt the statue and erase her from all of history. Does that work for the relatives?
She deserves recognition. It was not her expedition but she really did probably save the expedition especially because her Brother supplied horses to them.
She had a baby on the way and the men all loved him, said he was unusually cute. Her French husband turned out to be an excellent cook. They particularly liked a sausage he made using elk intestines.
American Taliban strikes again.
I read an article yesterday that showed the farting politicians of the left in North Carolina removing American statues at night under the cover of darkness. I guess the leftwing elitists do not want to “trigger” the “ignorant peons.”