For me, a boat without a name is unfinished.
For several days while the boat was near completion, I'd been holding on to a coin I came across, for no particular reason. I just couldn't spend it, I felt I had to keep it, but I wasn't sure why.
That's when the boat spoke to me, and told me her name!
Sacajawea.
Yes, that is the oldest spelling of her name that I know of, and the one I chose to use. From a little research on the Web:
"The Lemhi Shoshone call her Sacajawea. It is derived from the Shoshone word for her name, Saca tzah we yaa. In his Cash Book, William Clark spells Sacajawea with a “Jâ€Â
For several days while the boat was near completion, I'd been holding on to a coin I came across, for no particular reason. I just couldn't spend it, I felt I had to keep it, but I wasn't sure why.
That's when the boat spoke to me, and told me her name!
Sacajawea.
Yes, that is the oldest spelling of her name that I know of, and the one I chose to use. From a little research on the Web:
"The Lemhi Shoshone call her Sacajawea. It is derived from the Shoshone word for her name, Saca tzah we yaa. In his Cash Book, William Clark spells Sacajawea with a “Jâ€Â