Thrilled to announce that the screenplay, Sacajawea, a Mother’s Journey was awarded one of the top 3 scoring scripts at the Show Low Film Festival on October 20, 2024!
Based on the historical accounts
105 pages, Historical, Westerns, Female led
When Sacajawea finds herself a crucial member of the Lewis and Clark Corps of Discovery expedition to explore the west, she faces difficult decisions. When the group finds her tribe that is crucial to the expedition’s success, she has to decide whether to go on with the group, stay with her tribe or continue on to the Pacific. Because she’s become a mother, her decision involves sacrificing her own desires to make sure her son has the best future possible.
When the Lewis and Clark expedition recruits a pregnant Shoshone teen as a translator, Sacajawea, 16, learns the journey will return her to her beloved tribe, years after she was kidnapped and sold to an abusive trapper. When they arrive in Shoshone territory with the baby, she realizes the tribe faces a future of hostile inter-tribal wars. In the age-old kind of decision faced by mothers everywhere, Sacajawea must choose the path that offers her child the better future. Should she remain with her family where her son would face a life of intertribal wars? Or continue with the expedition to the white man’s world? The first would be familiar, but rife with danger. The second full of promise for education, a safer life for Pomp, but with the child’s father, who shames and abuses her?
SACAJAWEA loosely follows the Lewis and Clark expedition through the eyes of the young woman who was taken from her family, forced into slavery, and purchased by an alcoholic, abusive French trapper. Through the journey across the early American west, Sacajawea translated, taught herbal remedies, which roots and berries were edible, but most of all earned a role in history as the first woman to vote equally among men. Alongside York, an indentured African slave, Sacajawea and her infant son walked step by step with the white men. But eventually, Sacajawea had to choose between opposing worlds for her son. Why did she decide to stay with her son’s father and not with her brother, the young tribal chief, and her beloved Shoshone family? Why did Sacajawea continue the journey with Lewis and Clark all the way to St. Louis and a world she could only imagine for its differences?
SACAJAWEA, A MOTHER’S JOURNEY, reveals the tale of a remarkable young woman and mother whose impact on America and women’s roles we should understand, appreciate, and respect for her challenging journey and even more difficult decisions.
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