In between, the Sioux and their leader Sitting Bull (played by a commanding yet sorrowful August Schellenberg) are forced onto reservations by Washington to take up the more "civilized" life of farming. Written by Daniel Giat, based on the seminal book by Dee Brown, and directed by Yves Simoneau, BURY MY HEART tells the history of the Sioux from their victory over George Armstrong Custer at Little Big Horn in 1876 to their massacre by US Army troops at Wounded Knee in 1890 where scores of unarmed women and children were shot like dogs. Hollywood's been missing a nuanced, three-dimensional movie about America's treatment of the Indian for a while now, and though HBO Films' BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE doesn't quite fill the gap, it's at least a step in the right direction. So in movies like SOLDIER BLUE and LITTLE BIG MAN (both 1970), the image of the Native American was revised, making them one-dimensional good guys, innocent angels who were massacred by the white man, who ironically now became the bloodthirsty savage this time around. But by the Vietnam-era, Americans weren't only questioning authority, they were questioning the mythology of their past as well. In the 30s and 40s, Native Americans were one-dimensional bad guys, anonymous, bloodthirsty savages out to murder innocent white men as in John Ford's STAGECOACH. When it comes to portraying Native Americans on screen, let's face it, Hollywood has botched it for decades. It tells a story that should not be forgotten, and so must be retold from time to time.BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE by Tom McCurrie
A unique and disturbing narrative told with force and clarity, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee changed forever our vision of how the West was won-and lost.
Using council records, autobiographies, and firsthand descriptions, Brown allows great chiefs and warriors of the Dakota, Ute, Sioux, Cheyenne, and other tribes to tell us in their own words of the series of battles, massacres, and broken treaties that finally left them and their people demoralized and decimated. Immediately recognized as a revelatory and enormously controversial book since its first publication in 1971, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is universally recognized as one of those rare books that forever changes the way its subject is perceived.īury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Brown's classic, eloquent, meticulously documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the nineteenth century.
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