Sacajawea is famous throughout the United States for having taken part in Louis and Clark's great expedition to the New World. She is often called the main "heroine" of the expedition, which is why the expedition was so successful. Films, books, magazines and all popular culture have a main image of Sacajawea. This image is made up of one of the greatest leaders America has ever seen and an extremely hard-working, self-sufficient mother. She is known throughout popular culture as a great interpreter who helped Louis and Clark communicate with Indians from different tribes and succeed on the journey. As her image appears in the minds of most Americans, she is considered a role model par excellence, and some films such as "Night at the Museum" even use words such as "The Ultimate Working Mother" to describe her and her achievements. . She is known as the beautiful, mature woman who led the expedition, translated for the expedition, and helped on the expedition, all with a baby strapped to her back. She is shown as an intelligent married woman whose husband is a proud Frenchman. This is the primary image of Sacajawea as it appears to the mind, despite popular culture depictions, this is also the "whitewashed" image of the "great" Sacajawea. Popular culture may have portrayed Sacajawea as a role model, who everyone should look up to and aspire to be like. While in reality the expedition journals, including those of Louis and Clark, have a completely different portrait of Sacajawea. In reality during the expedition she was between 10 and 15 years old and not all popular culture portrayed her. Sacajawea was born into a tribe called the Shoshoni, who resided in what is now Id......the center of a sheet of paper......y being imprinted on it an image of Sacajawea. This word imprinted on a coin says a lot about Americans, but the most important thing it shows is that Americans are excessively proud. They try to pretend they are better than others by presenting false stories, and an important lesson all Americans should learn is that “pride comes before a fall.” Overall, the practice of hiding stories, like the story of Sacajawea, and linking it to words like freedom, prevents the public from learning the most important lesson about the story. “History is not learned by names, but rather by learning mistakes and not repeating them.” This cover-up practice prevents the public from learning the true meaning of the story and forces the same mistakes to be repeated, which could have easily been avoided. “History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes”.