Sacagawea - A complex legacy
Listen to the Podcast on Spotify Listen on Apple Listen on the web (via Podcast Addict - NO APP NEEDED) Email me: kelly@thebitchwhisperer.me In our National Parks pod episode, we covered National Parks honoring women's history. One name that didn't come up was Sacagawea. I guess because we were focused on National Parks and not State Parks, but she doesn't really pop up in search results for State parks either! You have to search for her by name to discover that not only are there 16 statues across the US dedicated to Sacagawea (she is the most statued/monumented woman in the US), she DOES have a state park as well. Sacajawea Historical State Park is in Pasco, Washington. As I mentioned last week, we discovered that Biden signed an Executive Order earlier this year mandating that more women be represented in the National Park system. There are 429 National Parks and only 76 of them are dedicated to women or women's history. There isn't a compilation of inf