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A historical drama about the relationship between a Civil War soldier and a band of Sioux Indians. Attracted by the natural simplicity of their lifestyle, John W. Dunbar chooses to leave his former life behind to join them, taking on the name Dances with Wolves. Soon, Dances with Wolves has become a welcome member of the tribe and fallen in love with a white woman who has been raised amongst the tribe. His peaceful existence is threatened, however,...
Pub. Date
1970.
Description
When an English lord is captured by a Sioux Indian tribe, he is given to the chief's aging mother as a servant. Gradually, he embraces the tribe's way of life and falls in love with the chief's sister. But before he can be accepted with honor as an equal within the tribe, he must endure the Sun Vow.
Pub. Date
2001
Description
Lord John Morgan (Harris), disillusioned with the "civilized" aristocracy of England, returns to the American West in search of the vigorous life he once led among the proud Yellow Hand tribe. But what he finds instead is destruction: a brutal and bloody war inflicted on his adopted blood brothers by an unscrupulous trapper and his followers.
Pub. Date
2014
Description
"'We are a horse nation' documents the relationship(s) existing and being built among the Oceti Sakowin (Lakota, Dakota, Nakota) peoples and the Sunka Wakan Oyate (Horse Nation). Stories, history, traditional horse songs and culture tell the story of how people across the Oceti Sakowin lands are bringing the horse back to the center of their way of life. Focusing on the healing provided by the Sunka Wakan Oyate, this film provides a positive picture...
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
In this powerful Western, Sheriff Wilkins shows what happens when a good man is pushed too far. Britt MacMasters, a U.S. Marshal, returns from a mission to find his father wounded and his son, Chad, kidnapped by the outlaw Jed Blake. Hot on their trail, Britt forms a posse with a gun-slinging deputy and a stoic Pawnee tracker. But both Jed and Britt tread dangerously close to the Red Desert's Sioux territory, which poses a menace far greater than...
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
American Indians and government officials at Pine Ridge, South Dakota--located in the poorest county in the United States--discuss the poverty, racism, domestic violence, child abuse, inadequate health care, and drug and alcohol problems that besiege the community, exploring how the Native Americans there are choosing to embrace their Lakota culture and determine their own destiny in the face of these enormous challenges.
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Pub. Date
2019
Description
Rewarded for his heroism in the Civil War, Lt. John Dunbar wants to see the American frontier before it is gone. He is assigned to an abandoned fort, with a Sioux tribe as his only neighbor. They overcome the language barrier and mutual fear and distrust to become friends. His knowledge of their ultimate fate forces him to make a crucial decision.
Pub. Date
[2012].
Description
Like everything else about General George Custer, his martyrdom was shrouded in controversy and contradictions. The final act of his larger-than-life career played out on a grand stage with a spellbound public engrossed in the drama. In the end, his death would launch one of the greatest myths in American history. Part of the Wild West collection.
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