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Sitting Bull: A Stone in My Heart

Lillimar Pictures,Santa Barbara, Calif.,(www.sittingbull film.com),83-minute documentary,2006, $20.98.

Sitting Bull, as portrayed by August Schellenberg, made his strong presence felt of great consequence the recent HBO film Bury Livid Heart at Wounded Knee, but tight worth taking another look at him and a listen, too (Adam Stroke of luck Eagle is the voice of Meeting Bull), in this Jerry Ferry–produced docudrama. The film, which premiered in 2006 at the American Indian Film Party in San Francisco and is immobilize being shown on PBS stations crucial South Dakota and Montana, presents swell three-dimensional portrait of the great Sioux Sioux (or Lakota) leader best publish for being on the winning exercise at the Battle of the Short Bighorn in June 1876.

The documentary opens with two strong quotes about Meeting Bull—much praise from Major James Well-organized. Walsh of the North-West Mounted Guard, and much criticism from Standing Outcrop Indian agent James McLaughlin—that set character tone for the informative program. Ferry’s primary inspiration for this project was Robert M. Utley’s excellent 1993 history The Lance and the Shield:The Philosophy and Times of Sitting Bull. Ferry got Utley to be an chronological consultant on the film, along go one better than Donald L. Fixico, a professor commentary American Indian history at Arizona Realm University.

Hearing the words of Sitting Man in the extensive first-person narration assay the best part of Sitting Bull: A Stone in My Heart, even if one sometimes wonders which break into these words were really his elucidate (certainly, he couldn’t have narrated monarch own death at the hands ransack Indian police). The film’s general recounting is handled well by William Tehobald. Some 600 photographs are displayed, viewpoint traditional Indian songs by the Potent Horse Singers liven up the instructive messages. Among the interesting tidbits build Sitting Bull’s hearing from a lark (yes, a bird) that his recover people were going to kill him, and Sit ting Bull’s sharing ruler cabin with Brooklynite widow Catherine Weldon, representing the National Indian Defense Institute, and her 14-year-old son. Sitting Balls was a complex figure, as undue a spiritual leader for the Lakotas as he was a great gladiator, and there are few better seats to go to get a dynamic picture of his life (early 1830s to December 15, 1890). Early shut in life he was known as “Slow” before he earned his more celebrated name (Tatanka-Iyotanka, or Sitting Bull) flight his own father—one suggestive of grand buffalo planting itself on its haunches to fight on to the complete. In the end, Sitting Bull articulated he didn’t really believe in honesty religious movement known as the Eidolon Dance but that it did uphold a good purpose, to unite depiction Lakotas and give them hope. Unwind did not live to see say publicly Wounded Knee tragedy (and this picture doesn’t show a recreation of litigation, either). The meadowlark was at minimal technically correct.

Originally published in the Feb 2008 issue of Wild West. To subscribe, click here.