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5.0 out of 5 stars: The last years of the Indian Wars
Amazon Review By J. Chambers on May 27, 2016
What impressed me most about the film was the relatively evenhanded approach toward the conduct of both whites and Indians. In the western films of the 1940s-1950s, Indians were often portrayed as one-dimensional savages, killing and scalping innocent settlers. In the 1960s and later, the pendulum swung to the other extreme, with whites and the government becoming the bad guys who wantonly killed Indians (example: the 1970 film Soldier Blue, depicting the Sand Creek Massacre in 1864). Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee begins with the 1876 battle at Little Big Horn and goes through the massacre at Wounded Knee Creek in 1890. The film focuses on the lives of four main real-life characters: Charles Eastman, a young Sioux Indian who left the reservation and was educated in the East, eventually receiving a medical degree and returning as a reservation doctor; U.S. Senator Henry Dawes, who led the government's efforts to deal with the Indians by gradually assimilating them into American society; Chief Sitting Bull, who refused to accept the government's solution to dealing with the Indians; and Chief Red Cloud, who disagreed with Sitting Bull about accepting the government's terms. It's a very interesting story about the last years of the Indian Wars as the U.S. government tried to bring peace to the West even while treaties were being broken and gold miners and settlers were constantly trespassing on Indian lands.