Sacajawea

Mr. Matz says the new Sacajawea Interpretative Center will teach visitors about the Native American culture while reducing traffic on the Lewis and Clark Trail.

If we carry two-dollar bills, we’ll never have to carry more than one Sacajawea, and those one-dollar coins will save vending-machines, mass-transit systems, and pay telephones hundreds of millions of dollars more.

Your fistful of change will likely come in the form of copper-colored one-dollar coins, emblazoned with the image of an American Indian woman named Sacajawea. It is a small irony, but the original twenty dollar bill that brought you the stamps and the Sacajaweas bore the image of Andrew Jackson, primary political architect of the policy of Indian removal.

Lonnie shook the Sacajaweas from his hand and let them land noisily on the glass coffee table—ting ting ting—oblivious or indifferent or likely hostile to Ig so near to nap.