Bury my heart at Wounded Knee-part 3

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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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• Wounded Knee
• Sioux
• Sitting Bull
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• American history
• Native American history
• Ghost Dance
• genocide
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[TheThreeWeavers]

This whole 'white man is evil and wrong' is absloute bull. Quite frankly, this is all about people screwing over other people. This isn't a racial matter. I'm white. Yeah, well? My own culture was screwed up by a neighbouring one and we were cheated, repressed and most of our traditions are now lost.Our language is dying. We were broken up and cast across the earth. White people screw over whites and indians screw over their own too. We're humans, it's what we do.

[arafel1964]

@TheThreeWeavers Partly you're right but I think there were some cultures not bent on worlddominion, like the Native Americans, Tibetans, Aborigines.

Europeans immigrated to N.America, S.America, Africa, N.Zealand, Australia, Indonesia; it caused genocide, killings, plundering, landtheft and slavery. Due to the plundering of these countries and surpressing the natives made the western countries are so rich and wealthy while the native peoples live in extreme poverty.

[inotaishu1]

There is truth to what the general said in the beginning of the video. Not that this is anything special, once there are more people than an environment can take there is gonna be fighting, no matter what skin color.

I don't know why but that simple fact was ignored in my history class and I had to learn it later.

And this myth of the "noble savage" is still pervasive today as it seems, although its probably the most rasistic concept of them all.

[arafel1964]

@inotaishu1 I think the myth of the noble savage is created by the media and the early movies wherein Natives were played by white men. But...despite infights the native Americans lived in much more harmony with thier surroundings than other cultures. They buried the restants of their camping, killed no more buffalos than necessary and only the smallest, weakest ones, they did not harvest a plant empty but in such a way the next year the plant was growing and so on. They respected nature.

[BleuTanooki]

As a white person I must say, after reading this book and watching this movie, I hate white people.

[arafel1964]

@BleuTanooki ; the jews were genocided but the number of NA who were genocided is much higher and historybooks just don't mention it. The book tells so many heartbreaking stories of so many tribes, the stealing of their land, the killings, their pain and suffering. And see how they are now forced to live. Too bad this movie only tells a part. People should all read the book.

But there are luckily many good white people and more are now aware of the truth behind the colonisation of America

[ekjbutterball2]

indians fought with other tribes for food and land because they were doing for their tribe, to they could SURVIVE. but white ppl dont do it to survive they do it to prophet or to show that they are the best because they can kill and scare others, they think they are supurior to others cuz of it.. natives take only wat is needed nd they use everythng that the animal has to offer meat, fur, bones. but white ppl take, cause that is what they are taught, to take to use and better yourself.

[mzbinden1952]

@TheThreeWeavers That is true many do point to race as the differences between us. It is if we allow to be.....but to me there is always a pretty clear picture of right and wrong. I may be wrong at times...many times perhaps...but I try never to close my eyes to the other person's point of view. Always I preach to my son that it is his integrity his word of honor that can never be taken from him. That he would have to give away by not standing by it. It's a pleasure to know you.

[TheThreeWeavers]

@mzbinden1952

Absloutely agreed! I guess I was just sick of the 'this is a race issue' comments. It's just another way of separating ourselves and not addressing an issue which I'd imagine most cultures world wide have or will have to deal with. If only we could forgive our differences we might seek to preserve not destroy. Best to you too :)

[mzbinden1952]

@TheThreeWeavers I suppose I feel it is more up to us to lead our leaders not have allow them to lead us. I know right from wrong....I don't kid myself into thinking my government the USA knows these things. Even now we fight for oil not for anything but that....men on all sides are dying for something in the ground...in this movie it was gold now it is oil. If I am going to fight..it will be to protect human rights only not something to have from someone else. Nor would I want my son to.

[mzbinden1952]

@TheThreeWeavers No admitting it is human nature is true but to say " 'white man is evil and wrong is absloute bull" is wrong...we are all wrong. In this case as in so many others it was racial and cultural. We are right and others are wrong.....this is why we argue more than we listen or try to understand. If even half the money spent on making war and imposing our will on others was spent on understand and accepting the differences we have this place would be much better served. Best to you !

[TheThreeWeavers]

@blueboy921

And to add please don't believe me to be boo hooing and comparing my life to what happened to others. That would be very unfair. It would be like trying to compare a fight in a pub with a full on WW3. However, I think it's important to share experiences especially to do with identiy and culture because a lot of people, even today, feel a little lost and although we all try to seperate ourselves I think it's important to accept we often feel similarly about such things.

[blueboy921]

@TheThreeWeavers

wow i guessed it right..

And yeah i understand the scottish, because they are quite different from england, and they didnt stand a chance against the British Empire, and didnt get free since... 1650 ?

[TheThreeWeavers]

@mzbinden1952

As humans we need leading and if God leaves us to do it ourselves is it really our fault if we let devils lead us blind folded?

[TheThreeWeavers]

@mzbinden1952

Absloutely.

A single man is harmless enough but what happens when you put him into a heirarchie? He plays his pack part well enough. When another pack rears it's ugly head and demands territory there will be a fight. Do I say it's good? NO. You misunderstand me but I do believe it to be natural. That does not excuse us at all but some people in that heirarchie unnaturally crave greedy power and sadly such individuas have a habit of making it as leader.

[TheThreeWeavers]

@mzbinden1952

Is admiting it's human nature wrong? Is it wrong for me to say 'yes, as soon as humans group together, as soon as we merge, as soon as we divide lands, make rules, create religion and find leaders... we become monsters?' We enslave, we torture, we send little boys out to fight tooth and nail over a poppy covered field. I never said it was OK but I did admit it's what we do. I feel if we accept the past, we can at least TRY and see when we're heading the wrong way.