简要：After the Sioux defeated General Castor in "The Little Horn," "Burying My Heart on an Injured Knee," "intertwined the perspectives of three characters: Charles Eastman (Beach) and the young Dartmouth educated Sioux doctor Ne Osheesa were seen as living evidence of successful assimilation; The proud Lakota chief Sitting Bull (played by Schellenberg) refuses to comply with the US government's policy of depriving his people of their identity, dignity, and holy land - Kingsoft, Dakota; And Senator Henry Dawes (Quinn), who was one of the government's policy makers on Indian affairs. When Eastman and aristocratic teacher Elaine Goodall (played by Paquin) worked hard to improve the lives of Native Americans on the reservation, Senator Dawes lobbied President Grant (played by Thompson) for more humane treatment, opposing General William Tecumse Sherman's bellicose stance. The hope of the Native Americans rose in the form of the Prophet Studi and the Ghost Dance, a savior movement that promised to end their suffering under white rule. On December 29, 1890, the Seventh Cavalry Brigade assassinated the Sitting Bull Brigade in the Wounded Knee Creek, massacred hundreds of Indian men, women, and children, and this hope was shattered. Screenplay for HBO Film Company
After the Sioux defeated General Castor in "The Little Horn," "Burying My Heart on an Injured Knee," "intertwined the perspectives of three characters: Charles Eastman (Beach) and the young Dartmouth educated Sioux doctor Ne Osheesa were seen as living evidence of successful assimilation; The proud Lakota chief Sitting Bull (played by Schellenberg) refuses to comply with the US government's policy of depriving his people of their identity, dignity, and holy land - Kingsoft, Dakota; And Senator Henry Dawes (Quinn), who was one of the government's policy makers on Indian affairs. When Eastman and aristocratic teacher Elaine Goodall (played by Paquin) worked hard to improve the lives of Native Americans on the reservation, Senator Dawes lobbied President Grant (played by Thompson) for more humane treatment, opposing General William Tecumse Sherman's bellicose stance. The hope of the Native Americans rose in the form of the Prophet Studi and the Ghost Dance, a savior movement that promised to end their suffering under white rule. On December 29, 1890, the Seventh Cavalry Brigade assassinated the Sitting Bull Brigade in the Wounded Knee Creek, massacred hundreds of Indian men, women, and children, and this hope was shattered. Screenplay for HBO Film Company展开
