Bury my heart at Wounded Knee-part 9

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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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• Ghost Dance
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[MrKrizzlyBear]

SAVAGE WHITE MAN 

[Kyran141Official]

that man who spoke at the canyon he speeks the truth and it will come true sooner that we think the white man will destroy each other as they had done for thousands of years

[arafel1964]

@HonestBloke ; Not completely true. I know that some cultures did not feel the need for world dominion. The gold which made Europeans to use every means possible to get it is somethng that didn't had much value to Native Americans. They considered everything alive, even plants and stones and now with a microscope we can see the movement of atoms in plants and stones so in a way they were right. They also lived in relative harmony with their environment which many westerners have forgotten.

[KYRAN141]

@HonestBloke THE WHITE'S ARE FUCKING IGNORANT like your dumb ass your weak your just some 34 year old nerd who sits at home jerking off to girls he cant get (well every girls within seeing or reach) the only place where you think your kewl is on the internet so get a life bud an don't try saying you have one cause every one knows your lonely unlike the rest of us that actually have lives & girl friends :) xD

[HonestBloke]

@MrKrizzlyBear

Savage mongols, Savage Japanese, Savage Aztecs,Savage Arabs.

Humans have been killing each other for land and power since we came out of the caves.

The white race are just more inventive at it is all, but no different then any other race.

So fuck you.

Your race is just weak is all.

[KYRAN141]

@Rochelle720 Black Foot ? Really I Am Cree Plains Cree My Ancestors Fought Your People Since We First Saw The Whites Your People Are Tough Up North We Still Fight But We Stand Together In Times Of Sorrow Your People Are Like Brothers To The Cree The White Man Made Us Brothers I Guess The White Man Isnt So Bad Hahah May The Great Spirit Watch Over You And Your People :)

[mcmuff123]

wes studi is number one!! :D plus he's sioux also