Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee (1994)
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First DEFA "western" establishing Gojko MitiÄ's stardom portraying Native Americans.
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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 Indiansâ last major victory at Little Big Horn.
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