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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Drama, History, TV Movie, War, Western
Beginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, the story is told through two unique perspectives: Charles Eastman, a young, white-educated Sioux doctor held up as living proof of the alleged success of assimilation, and Sitting Bull the proud Lakota chief whose tribe won the American Indians’ last major victory at Little Big Horn.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who value sober historical drama confronting Indigenous dispossession and institutional violence through intimate personal perspectives.
- Tone
- bleak, melancholic, contemplative
- Payoff
- heartbreak, reflection
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- harrowing
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- colonialism, cultural erasure, resistance, betrayal, historical trauma
- Setting
- late nineteenth century, Great Plains reservations and military outposts
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