Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee poster
Director Yves Simoneau
Screenplay Daniel Giat, Dee Brown

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Tagline: The Epic Fall of the American Indian

Release Date: 2007-05-27

Duration: 125 minutes

Synopsis

Beginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, the story is told through two unique perspectives: Charles Eastman, a young, white-educated Sioux doctor held up as living proof of the alleged success of assimilation, and Sitting Bull the proud Lakota chief whose tribe won the American Indians’ last major victory at Little Big Horn.

Casting

  • J.K. Simmons
    James McLaughlin
  • Shaun Johnston
    Col. Nelson Miles
  • Patrick St. Esprit
    Major Walsh
  • Anna Paquin
    Elaine Goodale
  • Wes Studi
    Wovoka
  • Wes Studi
    Jack Wilson
  • Fred Thompson
    President Ulysses S. Grant
  • Aidan Quinn
    Henry Dawes
  • Colm Feore
    General Sherman
  • Adam Beach
    Charles Eastman