The legendary Native American chieftain refuses to go with his people peacefully to the reservation and starts a rebellion.The legendary Native American chieftain refuses to go with his people peacefully to the reservation and starts a rebellion.The legendary Native American chieftain refuses to go with his people peacefully to the reservation and starts a rebellion.
- Nominated for 2 Primetime Emmys
- 3 nominations total
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- (as Terry Bigcharles)
- High Hump
- (as Buffalo Child C. Koopepequanicit)
- Wahokiza Luta
- (as William Birdshead)
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- TriviaAugust Schellenberg previously played Sitting Bull in Witness to Yesterday (1973) and would later do so again in Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (2007).
- GoofsMajor Reno is shown using a Henry Repeating Rifle, which later switches to a Winchester 1866. No Officers were using lever action rifles at the Little Bighorn. They mostly carried Sporting versions of the standard issue rifle, which was the Springfield Model 1873 "Trapdoor" Rifle. George Armstrong Custer carried a Remington Rolling Block Rifle in .50/70 caliber.
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Reporter: What about the Indians, General? And aren't the Black Hills officially Sioux land from the treaty of 1868?
General George Armstrong Custer: Whatever the right or wrong isn't the question. The Indians must be dispossessed. The practical question is how the inevitable can be accomplished with the least inhumanity to the Indians.
Reporter: Didn't General Polk say that?
General George Armstrong Custer: I believe in destiny, you see. For individuals as well as nations. Nothing can stop the movement of history.
But........ anyways...... I cannot recall how Crazy Horse died in the film since its been a while when I last saw it. In real life, he was only 35 when he was murdered by 3 white policemen who came to arrest him for no known reason. Apparently he was bayoneted in the back by one of these policemen while the other 2 held him so he couldn't free himself. It was truly a sad day in Lakota history when he died. It was also the way he died too that makes this situation even more sad.
Well..... however..... this is why I gave this film a 7 out of 10.
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