Clinton News-Record, 1975-04-17, Page 30PAGE 12
"Sacajawea"
Lewis and Clark expedition re -lived
WNEM-TV5 will broadcast
this new action story,
"Sacajawea" on Tuesday,
April 22 at 8:00 p.m.
"Sacajawea" is the newest
program in the award-winning
series of Avco -Meredith Young
People's Specials. Filmed
entirely on location in Montana,
"Sacajawea" is the story of the
young Indian girl who led Lewis
and Clark through wild
mountain country to find the
headwaters of the Missouri
River.
- Two years after Meriwether
Lewis and William Clark began
their epic exploration of the
great Northwest, the expedition
arrived at the Pacific Ocean.
With them was a young Indian
girl and her son, who -played an
important part in this epic
American adventure. She was
Sacajawea, meaning "named
of the birds that soared in the
wind."
Vividly dramatic, the film
portrays the difficulties or
moving against the mighty
currents of the Missouri River,
the constant struggle to keep
the canoes and longboat
moving ahead, the possibility of
capsizing, the threat of killer
bears, and the wonder of
seeing, for the first time, the
great Falls of the Missouri.
This Young People's Special
has, an all -family appeal and
depicts an historical event, the
people, and the period through
a dramatic action story.
HAPPY DAYS — Tuesdays 8:06 p,m. Channel 8