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.
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.