Joh Dunbar è considerato un eroe dopo che accidentalmente conduce le truppe dell'unione alla vittoria durante la Guerra Civile. Richiede una posizione sulla frontiera dell'ovest, ma la trova deserta. Presto, però, scopre di non essere solo ed incontra un lupo che chiama "due calzini" e una tribù pellerossa. Presto, Dunbar stringe amicizia con la tribù e scopre una donna bianca cresciuta dalla tribù di nativi...
It is 1879 in the Dakota Territories, a band of men who set out to find and recover a family of settlers that has mysteriously vanished from their home. Expecting the offenders to be a band of fierce natives, but they soon discover that the real enemy stalks them from below.
Un giocatore professionista sposa la figlia di un magnate. Volendo allontanarsi dal padre della ragazza, che disapprova l'unione, la coppia sale su un treno per un futuro migliore nello stato del Dakota, ma viene coinvolta in una feroce disputa.
A chronicle of legendary Native American poet/activist John Trudell's travels, spoken word performances and politics.
An outlaw is rescued from death by a nun who is traveling through the Badlands. She nurses him back to health in exchange for him guiding her to a Church in Williston. A deep friendship develops between these two unlikely people as they learn to work together to survive their dangerous journey.
Nel Dakota, all'epoca (1877-1978) della scoperta dell'oro, un colonnello e sua figlia partecipano a una delle "corse alla terra" per la proprietà di terreni da coltivare. Il padre viene ucciso e la ragazza, Lee Carlton, fidanzata a Dan O'Malley, un baldo cow-boy, è salvata da tre simpatici fuorilegge - Mike Costigan, Bull Stanley e Spade Allen - che diventano suoi cavalier serventi. I tre muoiono durante una corsa all'oro per mano di Layne Hunter, uno sceriffo corrotto, e della sua banda.
Un ufficiale di cavalleria ritrova, dopo diversi anni, un uomo che l'aveva pesantemente diffamato. Incombe la battaglia di Little Big Horn.
When Aaron Baring signs on as wagon master for a group of settlers headed to Montana's Powder River Valley, his dictatorial style soon creates problems. When the settlers reach their destination, Baring unwisely declares war on the local Indians. When savvy frontier scout Jim Henry tries to promote cooperation between the natives and the newly arrived settlers, Baring responds by having Williams whipped.
This documentary offers a deep, candid, and historical look at the Christian experience of America's largest and best-known tribes: the Dakota and Lakota. Its exploration into Native American history also takes a hard and detailed look at President Ulysses S. Grant's Peace Policy of 1873, which was, in effect, a "convert to Episcopalianism or starve" edict put forth by the American government in direct violation of its Constitution. The devastation it had on the values of the people affected were dramatic and extremely long-lasting. Grant's policy was finally ended over 100 years later by the Freedom of American Indian Religions Act in 1978. Interlaced with extraordinarily candid interviews, this documentary presents an insider's perspective of how the Dakota and Lakota were estranged from their religious beliefs and their long-standing traditions.
In the spring of 2005, Jim Miller, a Native spiritual leader and Vietnam veteran, found himself in a dream riding on horseback across the great plains of South Dakota. Just before he awoke, he arrived at a riverbank in Minnesota and saw 38 of his Dakota ancestors hanged. At the time, Jim knew nothing of the largest mass execution in United States history, ordered by Abraham Lincoln on December 26, 1862. Now, four years later, embracing the message of the dream, Jim and a group of riders retrace the 330-mile route of his dream on horseback from Lower Brule, South Dakota to Mankato, Minnesota to arrive at the hanging site on the anniversary of the execution. This is the story of their journey - the blizzards they endure, the Native and Non-Native communities that house and feed them along the way, and the dark history they are beginning to wipe away.