# Directors: Yves Simoneau
# Rating: NOT RATED
# Release Date: 27 May 2007 (USA)
# Studio: Hbo Home Video
# DVD Release Date: September 11, 2007
# Run Time: 132 minutes

# Actors: Aidan Quinn, Adam Beach, August Schellenberg, Anna Paquin

Untitled Wounded Knee Project (USA) (working title)

Inspired by Dee Brown’s acclaimed bestseller the HBO Films event begins powerfully with the Sioux triumph over General Custer at Little Big Horn. The action centers on the struggles of three characters: Charles Eastman (Adam Beach FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS) a young Dartmouth-educated Sioux doctor; Sitting Bull (August Schellenberg THE NEW WORLD) the proud Lakota chief who refuses to submit to U.S. government policies designed to strip his people of their identity dignity and sacred land; and Senator Henry Dawes (Aidan Quinn EMPIRE FALLS) one of the men responsible for the government policy on Indian affairs. While Eastman and schoolteacher Elaine Goodale (Anna Paquin X-MEN: THE LAST STAND) work to improve life for the Sioux on the reservation Senator Dawes lobbies President Grant for kinder Indian treatment. Epic in scope BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE is a new Western classic called “…insightful…deeply affecting…visually striking” by The Washington Post

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