I'm so happy I finally got to watch this entire series!! It's beautifully written and thruthful to what happens in everyday life. Just a great stories with great values!!!
My friend is the great great grandson of Chief Bigfoot(aka Sitanka) who was on a stretcher and killed right at the beginning. My friend's name is Leonard Little Finger and he still lives at Pine Ridge Reservation where the Massacre happened at Wounded Knee. I have so many Native American friends that you'd easily lose count and i have two Navajo elders who adopted me as their granddaughter in New Mexico. So now i'm tasked with the responsibility to defend a Native Tribe/Nation. N8VE PRIDE 4 EVER
@Onionsayswhat -- I am white and I say that whites could never stand together like the Native American Indians did. As in every Nationality in the world there is divided feelings between the own races as here and everywhere else in the world. not you or any one can change the past but we can change the future and all stand together. If I gad to choose again, I would choose the way of the Native Americans as I have studied all their ways and believes and have many Native American friends.
I am a South African Caucasian (white woman) but since I have been a little girl of 4 years old my heart has always been with the Native American people. My heart was so sore every time I see a movie like this it feels like my heart is tearing.. I so wish I lived in those years in that era and places to have tried to make a difference. Thank you so much for sharing this movie with us. It is highly appreciated.
@MezzoBelle Yes, indeed. There is hardly a nation or community where hatred and injustice have not been committed by one strong group over a weak one. What needs to be done now is not continuing the recriminations but to learn from the errors of the past and not repeat them lest we repeat history and injustice today. The tactics of dividing and ruling practised by politicians the world over needs in particular to be buried if all humanity is to live in mutual respect and peace.
The English rule of Ireland for 300 years reduced the island to virtual slavery and caused dozens of famines over the centuries. What is your point? The fact is that the story of the colonization of America was none the less one culture and way of life completely destroying another.
About the only other event in human history that even comes close to this would be the Holocaust.
Gah. Terribly sad, but at the same time I love how the first minutes are done: with little pathos, no great speeches, just taking a lot of time to let the scene speak for itself. It really hurts to watch but I'm glad they had the nerve to show a scene like this.
@Onionsayswhat May the Sacred Mystery forgive you of your ignorance and hatred as I too forgive you. Waya Anidonav daquadoa, tsi saquu aniyvwiya, aniwaya.
I am not Lakota, I am Tsalagi, but for those of you watching this and being ashamed for being white, I have this to say; the terms "Indian" and "white" as used by us natives, does not refer to a person's race or ethnic background, it refers to their cultural and spiritual ways. An indian is a person who keeps harmony and balance within himself and the rest of creation. A white man is a person who only chases after his greedy desires, never thinking of his fellow man or his own spirit.
@johnnykind217 I couldn't agree more, and I love how you see the Indian/ White issue. My dad is part Tsalagi/Cherokee, but was taken away from my grandmother, and put up for adoption when he was four. We lost so much of Dad's heritage, and it's so hard to reconnect. I'm still looking for where I belong; maybe that's why I enjoyed this movie so much, I could identify with Margaret Light Shines. Who knows maybe if I'm lucky one day I'll find my way back too.
lapsanglover, I would not go calling Americans hypocrites, I'm Luxembourgish myself but i doubt that we all need to hate on America, no country has a clean record when it comes their past and how they treated minorities. As horrible as this was, every other nation has their own faults when it comes to their history.
Then u need to check the comments again, your name is appropriate. Your words are like raw onions, untasteful. lol No ones going to want to listen to a basher. Just try to enjoy the show or don't watch.
Yes it saddens me when people abuse something that brings me serenity and love as a tool of violence. Brothers are to be loved, and they totally missed the point, while some at least tried.
damn, lol... that onionsaywhat guy is a moron of monumental proportions . ty for upload sir, this was an awesome mini series( i remember staying up to watch it when it first aired).
And to think, 55 years later, the hypocritical Americans convicted the Nazi's for the very same disgusting crimes. While allied administrations and soldiers (again) were themselves guilty of killing civilians purposely. Damn hypocrites!
i know what you mean the same with the japanese camps. It's history and it keep going in a circle. So why don't we pick up a book and listen to the ancestors. i'm african american this truth burns me and hurts.(idk if u know what i'm talking about soor if i wasted ur time).
@thinkso2985 I hear you and agree. I am Dutch and our past is not all rosy... the idea of the crimes committed makes me shudder... not to say that any other peoples are less inclined to such evils if chance arises. people are the same all over, alas.
Good series. Irritating only that the dialogue is always about "white men" and "red men". Many more things comes to mind: womens role in society, capitalist ways of the 1900th century, cultural values, spiritual beliefs and the difficulties we still have to understand each other. Humans are violent but in us all is also the potential for development into better ways of behaviour. Development (of mind) is still possible. Development is not always=building or introducing new technologies...
Yaye! I loved this series sooo much!! Thank you for uploading this and making it available to the world!.....Yes....we are still here....and we still have hope!...oh I loved that saying...my most favorite saying of them all....I have hope for my people and I hope that one day we all may understand one another in a different light!!! May the creator bless us all tenfold!!! Stavasavomes!!
HAHA!! Genocide, omg, that is totally absurd! All indian tribes were not mass murderers!! There are very few tribes that had war based societies. Dang, you think just because one tribe does one thing all tribes do it too. Tribes did not wipe each other out, that's just bogus talk right there. The tribes are still here today, well except for the ones that were wiped out by blue coats. WOW, your ability to talk like u know it all surpasses your knowledge of NATIVE AMERICA....dang..I shall pray 4u.
If the native Americans murdered everything that moved and breathed they would have ended up like the Mayans killing each other In wars and sacrifice them self's extinct by the time we got there it was only ruins
what about James wheeler, Jedediah smith, Ethan biggs, Clara wheeler etc... all these people where white men and women in this move of good quality and on the other side of the token running fox a native was very foolish so they showed that it has nothing to do with race, but everything to do with motives.
Boy I would love to see proof of the that fact. If your fact is true I'm purity sure the Indians wouldn't not have been in America by the time we got here. They would be more like the Mayan's of Mexico
i really don't think any of the killing in this move has any thing to do with them being white... Instead it has everything to do with greed, lies, pride, etc... i thought the director made it made that Purity clear.
Moral high ground or not, we were all wrong. We should all be ashamed of the pain that we caused. Still, quarreling about things that have happened in the past is silly. We cannot change it. So, I ask, why the anger? Why the needless belittling? It does nothing to get the point across.
To say we were all wrong is at best confusing, worst too clinically hygienic. It makes your admission appear hasty and unable to admit to a grievous fault. Why don't you just say, we wronged the native americans. We should not have done what we have done. We wrong them at wounded knee, we wronged them at sand creek and in all the places where we have massacred them. Now, we recognize them to be our equals and as equals we seek justice for all the wrong done to them.
@jcanbelladonna I love how youtube is full of idiots who are constantly spoting off whatever comes to the top of their minds, and then, every once in a while, you come across a gem of a person who actually can think! Then again, if we're so smart, why are we bothering posting stuff on Youtube?
dear, its too latre for be ashamed, its the time to recognized who we are and what we are since all these centuries. We are on earth again and its not for nothing. Mother earth need of us again like always in past. We are in a big processing now but we are with you. Open your heart and let your feeling of ashamed and culprit behind now, mother eartrh need of each of us, white or red, black or yellow peoples...we are all connected. We need to each others.
& another thing, when the Lakota natives commited any atrocities against any other native american tribes they did so in their own land, the US cavalry or army (in my opinion) was an invading army (mostly descendents of English, Irish and Germans), the whites are not native of the american continent, any whites, be it spanish or english or what ever.
This is a dramatization of something that happened in history, it's for entertainment, if you want historical facts then you should watch a documentary or read a history book on the subject.
I'm not British mate, I just live in the UK; you shouldn't jump to assumptions.
I'm spanish, which is another (Spain) country that has commited numerous amount of atrocities in it's past history (like I said before there is not a single nation that has not commited criminal acts on onother nation or culture)
Where are you from? US? wherever you may be from, then it's another nation that has commited mass murder.
Everyone sees things differently. as I have read some of the comments..... I'll excuse you and your lack of words you have to cuss ...... just lets leave it at that shall we! And move on!
Thank you for uploading the series......... I'd never seen it before ..... How times move...... the history of the Indian..... so sad........ why on earth was the white man so stupid back then ..... ....... they stole everything from them...... just really sad!
You know many watch this movie and think, "I'm glad thats all over and what horrible thingsthey went through", but the worst part is they are still going through this turmoil. Sadly the reservations still stand as they were and the government still controls their food, lodgings, schooling, and worst of all their FREEDOM. America will never be the land of oppurtunity as long as its Original occupants still live in missery and confinement. Thank you for the upload!May the Great Spirit bless you!
So, what happened to George/Voices that Carry? What happened to Abe Wheeler? =(
RavnDream 5 months ago
I'm so happy I finally got to watch this entire series!! It's beautifully written and thruthful to what happens in everyday life. Just a great stories with great values!!!
SexyHogwarts 6 months ago
I really like the bit where Margaret light shines takes a picture of that reporter...It's like after all that time he finally understands.
But seeing all those people in the grave makes me sad :/
beckyaa100 9 months ago 2
My friend is the great great grandson of Chief Bigfoot(aka Sitanka) who was on a stretcher and killed right at the beginning. My friend's name is Leonard Little Finger and he still lives at Pine Ridge Reservation where the Massacre happened at Wounded Knee. I have so many Native American friends that you'd easily lose count and i have two Navajo elders who adopted me as their granddaughter in New Mexico. So now i'm tasked with the responsibility to defend a Native Tribe/Nation. N8VE PRIDE 4 EVER
EliManningFan896 9 months ago
this kills me everytime i watch my people die like this....
H0ngkongboy 9 months ago 3
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Thank you for sharing this movie it was very moving!!
hiawathaangeleyes 11 months ago
@Onionsayswhat -- I am white and I say that whites could never stand together like the Native American Indians did. As in every Nationality in the world there is divided feelings between the own races as here and everywhere else in the world. not you or any one can change the past but we can change the future and all stand together. If I gad to choose again, I would choose the way of the Native Americans as I have studied all their ways and believes and have many Native American friends.
hiawathaangeleyes 11 months ago
I am a South African Caucasian (white woman) but since I have been a little girl of 4 years old my heart has always been with the Native American people. My heart was so sore every time I see a movie like this it feels like my heart is tearing.. I so wish I lived in those years in that era and places to have tried to make a difference. Thank you so much for sharing this movie with us. It is highly appreciated.
hiawathaangeleyes 11 months ago
POWERFUL ENDING!
DANG..............
helenadagreat 11 months ago
Okay, I'm confused. What happened to George after he got shot and put Robert on the wagon? Did I miss him dieing? Or does it just not say?
girlpink0124 1 year ago
@girlpink0124 No he left. Don't know where he went though. He told Robert that he belonged no where.
EliManningFan896 9 months ago
@EliManningFan896
Oh, okay. Thank you.
girlpink0124 9 months ago
@MezzoBelle Yes, indeed. There is hardly a nation or community where hatred and injustice have not been committed by one strong group over a weak one. What needs to be done now is not continuing the recriminations but to learn from the errors of the past and not repeat them lest we repeat history and injustice today. The tactics of dividing and ruling practised by politicians the world over needs in particular to be buried if all humanity is to live in mutual respect and peace.
geethashekhar1 1 year ago
@Onionsayswhat
The English rule of Ireland for 300 years reduced the island to virtual slavery and caused dozens of famines over the centuries. What is your point? The fact is that the story of the colonization of America was none the less one culture and way of life completely destroying another.
About the only other event in human history that even comes close to this would be the Holocaust.
Brendonbosy 1 year ago
where can i find first three episodes
TRUEMETALCAZMA 1 year ago
Gah. Terribly sad, but at the same time I love how the first minutes are done: with little pathos, no great speeches, just taking a lot of time to let the scene speak for itself. It really hurts to watch but I'm glad they had the nerve to show a scene like this.
RabiaB 1 year ago
@Onionsayswhat May the Sacred Mystery forgive you of your ignorance and hatred as I too forgive you. Waya Anidonav daquadoa, tsi saquu aniyvwiya, aniwaya.
johnnykind217 1 year ago
I am not Lakota, I am Tsalagi, but for those of you watching this and being ashamed for being white, I have this to say; the terms "Indian" and "white" as used by us natives, does not refer to a person's race or ethnic background, it refers to their cultural and spiritual ways. An indian is a person who keeps harmony and balance within himself and the rest of creation. A white man is a person who only chases after his greedy desires, never thinking of his fellow man or his own spirit.
johnnykind217 1 year ago 3
@johnnykind217 I couldn't agree more, and I love how you see the Indian/ White issue. My dad is part Tsalagi/Cherokee, but was taken away from my grandmother, and put up for adoption when he was four. We lost so much of Dad's heritage, and it's so hard to reconnect. I'm still looking for where I belong; maybe that's why I enjoyed this movie so much, I could identify with Margaret Light Shines. Who knows maybe if I'm lucky one day I'll find my way back too.
NjoyingNsanity77 1 year ago
@NjoyingNsanity77 I am sure you will find your way back. You are in my prayers. The Creator will hear you, but only if you speak.
Yigaquu unequa adadoligi nigohilvi nasquv utloyasdi nihi
May the Great Spirit's Blessings Always Be With You
johnnykind217 1 year ago
lapsanglover, I would not go calling Americans hypocrites, I'm Luxembourgish myself but i doubt that we all need to hate on America, no country has a clean record when it comes their past and how they treated minorities. As horrible as this was, every other nation has their own faults when it comes to their history.
Taytertots101 1 year ago
they didn't respectfuly burie them they trew them in to a pit as if they
zhoni2004 2 years ago
Then u need to check the comments again, your name is appropriate. Your words are like raw onions, untasteful. lol No ones going to want to listen to a basher. Just try to enjoy the show or don't watch.
FangnclawX 2 years ago
sadly this kinda shit still happens, mainly because of religion, ignorance, and racism.
rits100 2 years ago 12
Yes it saddens me when people abuse something that brings me serenity and love as a tool of violence. Brothers are to be loved, and they totally missed the point, while some at least tried.
FangnclawX 2 years ago
damn, lol... that onionsaywhat guy is a moron of monumental proportions . ty for upload sir, this was an awesome mini series( i remember staying up to watch it when it first aired).
rits100 2 years ago
And to think, 55 years later, the hypocritical Americans convicted the Nazi's for the very same disgusting crimes. While allied administrations and soldiers (again) were themselves guilty of killing civilians purposely. Damn hypocrites!
Lapsanglover 2 years ago
i know what you mean the same with the japanese camps. It's history and it keep going in a circle. So why don't we pick up a book and listen to the ancestors. i'm african american this truth burns me and hurts.(idk if u know what i'm talking about soor if i wasted ur time).
thinkso2985 2 years ago
@thinkso2985 I hear you and agree. I am Dutch and our past is not all rosy... the idea of the crimes committed makes me shudder... not to say that any other peoples are less inclined to such evils if chance arises. people are the same all over, alas.
Lapsanglover 2 years ago
They need to tell the story of: Little Lost Bird
The baby girl who was found alive at Wounded Knee, she was adopted by a Soldier
I feel bad that she got rejected by the White and her own people
She had a hard life, she died in California and they burried her where they found her: Wounded Knee
Ridger90 2 years ago 2
these 'more things' will have difficulty....
because there has never been healing in this country.
the blood of the native peoples 'cries out to the Great Spirit from the ground.
things will not go well, until there is healing.
jagib2 2 years ago 5
Good series. Irritating only that the dialogue is always about "white men" and "red men". Many more things comes to mind: womens role in society, capitalist ways of the 1900th century, cultural values, spiritual beliefs and the difficulties we still have to understand each other. Humans are violent but in us all is also the potential for development into better ways of behaviour. Development (of mind) is still possible. Development is not always=building or introducing new technologies...
MyTamang 2 years ago 2
Yaye! I loved this series sooo much!! Thank you for uploading this and making it available to the world!.....Yes....we are still here....and we still have hope!...oh I loved that saying...my most favorite saying of them all....I have hope for my people and I hope that one day we all may understand one another in a different light!!! May the creator bless us all tenfold!!! Stavasavomes!!
cheytea 2 years ago
HAHA!! Genocide, omg, that is totally absurd! All indian tribes were not mass murderers!! There are very few tribes that had war based societies. Dang, you think just because one tribe does one thing all tribes do it too. Tribes did not wipe each other out, that's just bogus talk right there. The tribes are still here today, well except for the ones that were wiped out by blue coats. WOW, your ability to talk like u know it all surpasses your knowledge of NATIVE AMERICA....dang..I shall pray 4u.
cheytea 2 years ago 3
If the native Americans murdered everything that moved and breathed they would have ended up like the Mayans killing each other In wars and sacrifice them self's extinct by the time we got there it was only ruins
cabinneighbors 2 years ago
what about James wheeler, Jedediah smith, Ethan biggs, Clara wheeler etc... all these people where white men and women in this move of good quality and on the other side of the token running fox a native was very foolish so they showed that it has nothing to do with race, but everything to do with motives.
cabinneighbors 2 years ago
Boy I would love to see proof of the that fact. If your fact is true I'm purity sure the Indians wouldn't not have been in America by the time we got here. They would be more like the Mayan's of Mexico
cabinneighbors 2 years ago
i really don't think any of the killing in this move has any thing to do with them being white... Instead it has everything to do with greed, lies, pride, etc... i thought the director made it made that Purity clear.
cabinneighbors 2 years ago
Moral high ground or not, we were all wrong. We should all be ashamed of the pain that we caused. Still, quarreling about things that have happened in the past is silly. We cannot change it. So, I ask, why the anger? Why the needless belittling? It does nothing to get the point across.
jcanbelladonna 2 years ago 11
Couldn't have put it better myself
resaka9 2 years ago 4
@jcanbelladonna
To say we were all wrong is at best confusing, worst too clinically hygienic. It makes your admission appear hasty and unable to admit to a grievous fault. Why don't you just say, we wronged the native americans. We should not have done what we have done. We wrong them at wounded knee, we wronged them at sand creek and in all the places where we have massacred them. Now, we recognize them to be our equals and as equals we seek justice for all the wrong done to them.
coolmacmac 1 year ago
@jcanbelladonna I love how youtube is full of idiots who are constantly spoting off whatever comes to the top of their minds, and then, every once in a while, you come across a gem of a person who actually can think! Then again, if we're so smart, why are we bothering posting stuff on Youtube?
anatwick18 1 year ago
@jcanbelladonna
dear, its too latre for be ashamed, its the time to recognized who we are and what we are since all these centuries. We are on earth again and its not for nothing. Mother earth need of us again like always in past. We are in a big processing now but we are with you. Open your heart and let your feeling of ashamed and culprit behind now, mother eartrh need of each of us, white or red, black or yellow peoples...we are all connected. We need to each others.
nebraska8441 2 months ago
Again, this is a dramatic series, not a documentary.
You seem to be a very angry person, you really do need to take a chill pill mate
resaka9 2 years ago
& another thing, when the Lakota natives commited any atrocities against any other native american tribes they did so in their own land, the US cavalry or army (in my opinion) was an invading army (mostly descendents of English, Irish and Germans), the whites are not native of the american continent, any whites, be it spanish or english or what ever.
resaka9 2 years ago
This is a dramatization of something that happened in history, it's for entertainment, if you want historical facts then you should watch a documentary or read a history book on the subject.
resaka9 2 years ago
I'm not British mate, I just live in the UK; you shouldn't jump to assumptions.
I'm spanish, which is another (Spain) country that has commited numerous amount of atrocities in it's past history (like I said before there is not a single nation that has not commited criminal acts on onother nation or culture)
Where are you from? US? wherever you may be from, then it's another nation that has commited mass murder.
resaka9 2 years ago
There's no single civilization that has not commited atrocities at some point in history
resaka9 2 years ago
Everyone sees things differently. as I have read some of the comments..... I'll excuse you and your lack of words you have to cuss ...... just lets leave it at that shall we! And move on!
aBritaBroad 2 years ago
Thank you for uploading the series......... I'd never seen it before ..... How times move...... the history of the Indian..... so sad........ why on earth was the white man so stupid back then ..... ....... they stole everything from them...... just really sad!
aBritaBroad 3 years ago
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You know many watch this movie and think, "I'm glad thats all over and what horrible thingsthey went through", but the worst part is they are still going through this turmoil. Sadly the reservations still stand as they were and the government still controls their food, lodgings, schooling, and worst of all their FREEDOM. America will never be the land of oppurtunity as long as its Original occupants still live in missery and confinement. Thank you for the upload!May the Great Spirit bless you!
wolfsgirl67 3 years ago
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wolfsgirl67 3 years ago
Thank you so much for uploading this series - I wanted to watch it when it aired on television, but I didn't have the channel.
jess9450 3 years ago
Thank you for uploading this, truly moving, I was in tears
IssiT24 3 years ago