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The Great Sioux Massacre is a 1965 American Western war film directed by Sidney Salkow in CinemaScope using extensive action sequences from Salkow's 1954 Sitting Bull.In a fictionalized form, it depicts Custer's descent from a defender of the Indians from federal interference to an incompetent warmonger, and the Indians as his victims, and covers events leading up to the Battle of the Little ...
The massacre occurred when a large Sioux war party of over 1,500 Oglala, Brulé, and Sihasapa warriors, led by Two Strike, Little Wound, and Spotted Tail attacked a band of Pawnee during their summer buffalo hunt. In the ensuing rout, many Pawnees were killed with estimates of casualties ranging widely from around 50 to over 150. The victims ...
The Sioux were the former enemies of the Meskwaki and were enlisted to make a joint attack against the Ojibwe. [44] The Meskwaki were first to engage with the large Ojibwe war party led by Waubojeeg: the Meskwaki allegedly boasted to the Dakota to hold back as they would quickly destroy their enemies.
The Sioux Wars were a series of conflicts between the United States and various subgroups of the Sioux people which occurred in the later half of the 19th century. The earliest conflict came in 1854 when a fight broke out at Fort Laramie in Wyoming, when Sioux warriors killed 31 American soldiers in the Grattan Massacre, and the final came in 1890 during the Ghost Dance War.
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is a 2007 American Western historical drama television film based on the 1970 non-fiction book of the same name by Dee Brown.It is directed by Yves Simoneau and was produced by Wolf Films for HBO.
The Great Sioux Uprising was the first film under the new agreement. [2] Alexis Smith and Stephen McNally were meant to co star with Chandler. [3] Eventually Smith was replaced by Faith Domergue. [4] McNally's wife then fell ill and he asked to withdraw from the film; he was replaced by Lyle Bettger. [5] Filming took place in Portland and ...
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The Sioux meet with a Cheyennes tribe and persuade them to join in their uprising. The chief shows the treaty to the Cheyenne before ripping it up and throwing it to the ground. We cut back to Lieut. White who asks for and receives the Colonel's consent to marry his daughter. At the Sioux camp, Sky Star overhears their plan to massacre the ...