剧情介绍
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 ), né Ohiy esa, a young, Dartmouth-e ducated, Sio ux doctor hel d up as living proof o f the alleged success o f assimila tion; Sitting Bull (Sc hellenberg) , the prou d Lakota chie f who refuse s to submi t to U. S. governm ent poli cies designe d to strip his peopl e of thei r identit y, the ir dignity and their sacred land – the gol d-laden Blac k Hills of the Dakotas; an d Senator Henry Dawes (Quinn ), who was one of t he archi tects of the go vernment pol icy on India n affairs. Whil e Eastman an d patri cian sc hoolteach er Elaine Goodale (Paqu in) wor k to impr ove lif e for the Indi ans on the res ervation, S enator Dawes lo bbies Pres ident Grant (Th ompson) for more hu mane treat ment, op posing the bel licose stance of General Will iam Tecumseh S herman ( Feore). Hope rise s for th e Indians i n the form of the prophet W ovoka (Studi) a nd the Ghost Dance – a mess ianic movement that promises an end of th eir suf fering un der the white man. Th is hope is obl iterate d after the assassina tion of Sitting Bull an d the massacre of hundreds of Indian me n, women and childre n by th e 7th Cavalr y at Wo unded Knee Cree k on Dec . 29, 1890. Wr itten by HBO Films详情
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