魂归伤膝谷

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 Ohiyesa, a young, Dartmoutheducated, 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 US government policies designed to strip his people of their identity, their dignity and their sacred land – the goldladen 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 Written by HBO Films