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 Eastma n (Beach) , né Oh iyesa, a you ng, Dart mouth-educ ated, Sioux doc tor held u p as living p roof of the alleged success of assi milation; Sitting Bull (S chellenberg) , the proud Lakota chief who refuses to submit to U.S . government policies de signed to s trip his peo ple of thei r identity , their dignit y and their sacred land – the gold-lad en Blac k Hills o f the Dakot as; and Senator Henry D awes (Quinn), who was on e of the archi tects of the governme nt policy on I ndian affairs. While Eastman a nd patrician schooltea cher El aine Goo dale (Pa quin) wo rk to improve life for the I ndians on the reser vation, Senat or Dawe s lobbie s Presi dent Grant (Th ompson) f or more huma ne treatment, opposing the bellicose stan ce of General W illiam T ecumseh Sherman ( Feore). Hope rises for t he Indians in the form of t he proph et Wovoka (Studi) and the Ghost Da nce – a m essianic movem ent that promises an end of thei r suffering u nder the white man. T his hope is obl iterated af ter the assa ssination of Sitting Bull and the ma ssacre of hu ndreds of Ind ian men, women and chi ldren by the 7t h Cavalry at Wo unded Knee Cre ek on De c. 29, 1890. Written by HBO Films详情
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