Bury my heart at Wounded Knee-part 12

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Beginning with the Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE intertwines the unique perspectives of three characters: Charles Eastman (Adam Beach), né Ohiyesa, a young, Dartmouth-educated, Sioux doctor held up as living proof of the alleged success of assimilation; Sitting Bull (August Schellenberg), the proud Lakota chief who refuses to submit to U.S. government policies designed to strip his people of their identity, their dignity and their sacred land - the gold-laden Black Hills of the Dakotas; and Senator Henry Dawes (Aidan Quinn), one of the architects of the government policy on Indian affairs.

While Eastman and patrician schoolteacher Elaine Goodale (Anna Paquin) work to improve life for the Sioux on the reservation, Senator Dawes lobbies President Grant (Thompson) for more humane treatment, opposing the bellicose stance of General William Tecumseh Sherman (Feore).

Hope rises for the Sioux in the form of the prophet Wovoka (Studi) and the Ghost Dance - a messianic movement that promises an end of their suffering under the white man.

This hope is all but obliterated after the killing of Sitting Bull and the massacre of hundreds of Lakota men, women and children by the 7th Cavalry at Wounded Knee Creek on Dec. 29, 1890.

Published in 1971, Dee Brown's book is one of the foremost works documenting the systematic subjugation of the American Indian during the latter half of the 19th century. It has sold nearly five million copies and has been translated into 17 languages.

From Brown's encyclopedic tome chronicling the fate of the Dakota, Ute, Cheyenne and other tribes, the film focuses on the events leading up to the massacre of the Sioux, which many consider one of the most grievous atrocities in United States history.

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[ColonelGeorgeACuster]

What i want to know is if it really happnd like THAT, I'm not sure, if it did ity's horrible, too horrible for words.. ='( But isn't this event as foggy and uncertain as The Battle of the little Bighorn?

[arafel1964]

@ColonelGeorgeACuster Read the book. It's about many more N/W-American tribes like the Poncas, Kiowas and Nez Perce, also those who were in 'peace' with the government and had a treatie. And then without giving a reason they were told to go to a reservation because the white settlers needed land or gold was found. Buffalo's were killed as a means to deprive Indians from their food and blankets with small pox were given them to diminish their numbers and to force them into a reservation

[lotuskoi]

This movie makes me feel SICK to live in such a country. What a cruel and malicious government we have. Even to this day.

[silentobservor]

Words cannot tell how angry I feel right now.

[EliManningFan896]

Seeing all those poor natives lying around.... Makes me want to throw up.... Excuse me! The one who got turned over facing up and who's photo got taken, he's my friend's great great grandfather. My friend's name is Leonard Little Finger, his great great grandfather's name is Chief Bigfoot(Sitanka).

[ChgoGurl7]

@ColonelGeorgeACuster ------- Look up the diane sawyer story about pine ridge. N that is a fairly recent story... "We" natives are some of the strongest ppl this world will ever come across !!!! My comments were not to take aim at your comment or to draw offense. Just wanted to share my point of view =)

[ChgoGurl7]

@ColonelGeorgeACuster ------- I find it quite funny how all the "white" soldiers found these events to be foggy and uncertain... Many of my ancestors remember it as vividly as it were yesterday. They had no reason to lie about the events that took place, no money to gain, no fame to gain, no land, nothing @ all... N how could any ppl make something like this up??? They murdered them by the thousands and the government is still oppressing them today.

[hannibalcaesar3]

Completely false massacre scene. one the ground was covered with snow. 2 it was not a running killing field. 3 the natives never closed in in hand-to-hand they were mowed down at a longer range. and the indians fired back, this film shows no such thing.

[MrChaingunCheney]

@ColonelGeorgeACuster yeah but if you look at it, the americans always started these kind of things

[marc96ish]

when 2 civilizations meet 1 always goes down in fact i did not think it wouldve been my ancestors of the cheyenee or the sioux people the crow or the lakota respect nd rip for all those men who died trying to save our lands tht the whiteman took from us

[gummywummy]

sad but mild compared to the sickening gruesomeness i read about

[victortyang]

POW-reservations of Native Americans still exist today it boils me up, its Genocide, African Americans got there freedom where is the freedom of the Native people

[lingling101010]

lololz, sitting bull shot in the head, but then no bullet hole at 1:54 XD

[vamoarriba100]

There are plenty of non whites that are just as greedy.... greed is part of human nature. we want more and more and more.... it never ends. The world is going to hell in a hand basket if things don't start changing fast and it needs to begin with going back to basics and understanding what is really important. NOT the latest flat screen TV. By the way i'm not white.