Excellent documentary that covers multiple years of life of the Dull Knife Lakota family on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. The film focuses on the family's struggle to survive financially and culturally, as they battle racism and lack of economic opportunity.
The documentary highlights the disgraceful treatment of the Lakota people. First their lands were stolen. Next, their culture was destroyed by government programs that stole children away from their parents to be placed in boarding schools where they were forced to abandon their language and their culture. Today native Americans face hopelessness in a country that still treats them with much disrespect and racism.
There is some hope in the form of the younger Lakota generation, including George Dull Knife, as he and other AIM members try to preserve their heritage.
The documentary highlights the disgraceful treatment of the Lakota people. First their lands were stolen. Next, their culture was destroyed by government programs that stole children away from their parents to be placed in boarding schools where they were forced to abandon their language and their culture. Today native Americans face hopelessness in a country that still treats them with much disrespect and racism.
There is some hope in the form of the younger Lakota generation, including George Dull Knife, as he and other AIM members try to preserve their heritage.
