Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (2007)

Directors

Yves Simoneau

Cast

Aidan Quinn, August Schellenberg, Anna Paquin, Adam Beach

The story

The plot, which is based on events covered by several chapters of Brown's book, other sources, and on real events, revolves around four main characters: Charles Eastman né Ohiyesa, a young, mixed-race Sioux doctor educated at Dartmouth and Boston University, who is held up as proof of the success of assimilation Sitting Bull, the Sioux 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 U.S. Senator Henry L.

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