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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Released Year: 2007

All Genres: Drama, History, Western

Country: USA

Rating: 7 (0)

Languages: English

Runtime: 133

Sound: Dolby Digital

Director(s): Yves Simoneau

Writing by:

• Daniel Giat (teleplay)
• Dee Brown (book) (as Dee Alexander Brown)

Produced by:

• Yves Simoneau - co-executive producer
• Dick Wolf - executive producer
• Clara George - producer
• Tom Thayer - executive producer

Cast:

• August Schellenberg - Sitting Bull
• Aidan Quinn - Henry Dawes
• Fred Dalton Thompson - President Ulysses S. Grant (as Fred Thompson)
• Anna Paquin - Elaine Goodale
• Colm Feore - General Sherman
• Nathan Lee Chasing His Horse - One Bull (as Nathan Chasing Horse)
• Shaun Johnston - Col. Nelson Miles
• Brian Stollery - Bishop Whipple
• Wayne Charles Baker - Jacob
• Chevez Ezaneh - Ohiyesa / Young Charles
• Duane Howard - Uncle

Music:

• George S. Clinton

Plot Outline: A chronicle of how American Indians were displaced as the U.S. expanded west. Based on the book by Dee Brown.

Plot: Beginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee intertwines the perspectives of three characters: Charles Eastman (Beach), nй Ohiyesa, a young, Dartmouth-educated, Sioux doctor held up as living proof of the alleged success of assimilation; Sitting Bull (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 (Quinn), who was one of the architects of the government policy on Indian affairs. While Eastman and patrician schoolteacher Elaine Goodale (Paquin) work to improve life for the Indians 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 Indians 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 obliterated after the assassination of Sitting Bull and the massacre of hundreds of Indian men, women and children by the 7th Cavalry at Wounded Knee Creek on Dec. 29, 1890.


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