Word: sacjawea
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There's something pretty weird going on at www.usmint.gov. Thousands of people, most of them surely white Americans, are telling the U.S. Mint which of six images of an American Indian woman they want on a new coin. The woman is Sacjawea, the Shoshone slave who accompanied Merriwether Lewis and William Clark on their 1804 journey across the Pacific Northwest. The coin is the new gold-colored, quarter-sized dollar piece, which will be minted next fall and which may replace the dollar bill within a few years...
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