Sacagawea ~ Sacajawea ~ Sakakawea. The only Native American woman who served as an interpreter and guide for the Lewis and Clark Expedition in 1805 and 1806. As a child, she had been taken by members of the Hidatsa Tribe and lived among them. Later she was sold to a French-Canadian trapper named Toussaint Charbonneau.
Many films are considered hybrids - they straddle several film genres. Genres History: By the end of the silent era, many of the main genres were established: the melodrama, the western, the horror film, comedies, and action-adventure films (from swashbucklers to war movies).
See also: List of genres and List of genres Â§ Film and television formats and genres. 1  Western films are those set in the American West that embod[y] the spirit, the struggle and the demise of the new frontier.. Pictured is Clint Eastwood in the Western film A Fistful of Dollars (1964).