![]() Senator, Henry Dawes ( Aidan Quinn) favors a peaceful policy of relocating the Indians to "Reservations," government-sustained but barren lands, to be Christianized, farm-trained, and cajoled to legally sell the Black Hills. The victory is a last hurrah for the Native Americans trying to hold onto sacred Black Hills lands, in the wake of a series of peace treaties largely broken/rewritten by the Whites greedy for railroad and mining territory. The Little Big Horn massacre of General Custer (shown from a distance, in a striking, overhead shot) happens under Native American warriors led by Lakota Sioux Chief Sitting Bull ( August Schellenberg). began to expand west in the 1860s and 1870s. ![]() BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE looks at the conflicts that occurred with the Native Americans when the U.S. ![]()
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