Scene from Sacajawea, The Windcatcher After a harrowing trek, near-starvation and dangerous conditions, the explorers finally make it across the treacherous mountains led by Old Toby, the Shoshoni guide. Their clothes are rotting off their backs - their moccasins worn through, and the lack of food and water has made them weak and vulnerable. But then, …
Sacajawea, The Windcatcher focuses on Native American filmmakers
Jhane MyersProducer, ActorBlackfeet Advisor This journey we travel is, without a doubt, the most amazing yet cantankerous trail we’ve ever experienced. It is a mixture of harsh reality in a literal world and a spirituality that truly blows us away at every turn. We are honored to be a part of this mosaic – and …
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Stoke the Fire
When Sacajawea was a little girl, she was kidnapped, abused and heartsick. She had to live with people she didn’t know. Yet the Great Spirit was showing her something, for her heart was known… What Sacajawea felt and saw, and what she chose to do helped her become the person she needed to be. For …
Indigenous actor, Jhane Myers, cast as “Otter Woman” in Sacajawea, The Windcatcher
The producers of Sacajawea, The Windcatcher an international feature film project about the life of Sacajawea, are proud to welcome Jhane Myers award-winning producer and actor for the character of “Otter Woman." Jhane (Comanche/ Blackfeet) has garnered awards as a filmmaker, producer, actor, Native adviser and an artist of traditional jewelry and regalia. She was …
Leo T. Ariwite, Sacajawea Descendant, Joins the Sacajawea Film as Associate Producer
Captain William Clark wrote this to Sacajawea’s husband, Toussaint Charbonneau, in 1806:“[Y]our woman who accompanied you that long dangerous and fatigueing rout to the Pacific Ocian and back diserved a greater reward for her attention and services on that rout than we had in our power to give her...” People of America, we have in …
The Eagle’s Tree
A great vision is needed and the one who has it must follow it as the eagle seeks the deepest blue of the sky. ~Ta Shunke Witko In an eagle there is all the wisdom of the world. ~Lame Deer I am in awe and wonder at Indigenous wisdom and I am so very grateful... …
York and Sacajawea
Sacajawea, The Windcatcher, gives us a look at injustice in the early 1800s. Though we have come a distance with racial and gender issues in our country, we have a greater distance to travel. Our storyline presents an awareness we all need to embrace as free human beings.While this film is Sacajawea’s story, there is another character whose life experience, and …
The World Awaits
Nineteen months ago, when we shot our teaser reel at Fort Stevens State Park, I walked along the sand excited and thinking about the very next steps for Sacajawea, The Windcatcher. Sacajawea had shown us many wonders that week and I knew in my soul, if we just kept walking we would reach our dream …
Let Us Shift toward Greatness
A brief moment of history had a powerful effect on a New Age, as a group of individuals, the Corps of Discovery, successfully accomplished something together despite their differences. They were soldiers and traders with diverse backgrounds, a black slave who was virtually free on the trek, and a brave, strong warrior woman who endured …
One Woman’s Life
Sacajawea, The Windcatcher is a journey of one woman's life, yet as watchers of Sacajawea's life, we bring her journey to ourselves. She walked, she talked, she sang, she prayed on smoke to the Great Father. She knew joy and she knew pain... indeed, she had a dream written on her heart that she could …
Sacajawea The Movie 