Hi everyone,
It is important to note that the coin will not feature the image of
Sacagawea, as we don't know what she looked like. The coin will feature
the "image of a Native American woman" which is intended to honor
Sacagawea.
Frankly, I have serious reservations about this (no pun intended). _If_
the image on the coin would incorporate what we know about Shoshone
women's clothing, hairstyles, etc. (Sacagawea was Shoshone), and _if_ the
image were conceived of and rendered by a Native American artist and were
presented to and endorsed by Native American leaders, this would be
something to celebrate. But there is _no_ precedent for that kind of
sensitivity to appropriation on the part of the federal government.
I am looking forward to seeing another image-of-the-Indian-woman as seen,
romanticized, exoticized, misrepresented by the white Man.
Dances-with-Sacagawea. yuck.
Sorry to be such a downer today.
Jeannie
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