Sacagawea ('Sakakawea, Sacajawea, Sacajewea "Sagagawea"'; (c. 1788 – December 20, 1812; was a Shoshone woman who accompanied the Corps of Discovery with Meriwether Lewis and William Clark in their exploration of the Western United States, travelling thousands of miles from North Dakota to the Pacific Ocean between 1804 and 1806. She was nicknamed Janey by Clark. -------------------------------------- The Sacagawea dollar coin issued by the United States Mint depicts Sacagawea and her son, Jean Baptiste. The face on the coin was modelled on a modern Shoshone woman named Randy'L He-dow Teton; no contemporary image of Sacagawea exists.