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THE RIDE TO WOUNDED KNEE

Directed and Written by Robert Clapsaddle
Produced by Carole Wolman


Narrated by:
Mark White Bull, Jim Swan, Nancy Clapsadle, Rick Afraid of Hawk, Issac Dog Eagle and Joe Walker

Winner -
Gold Medal Award - Feature Documentary, Philadelphia Film Festival
Winner -
Humbolt International Film Festival

 

Sitting Bull's spirit narrates this stirring record of a journey on horseback, taken recently by a group of Lakota Indians (Sioux) across the stark, snow-swept, -70° landscape of South Dakota. This 250 mile spiritual quest retraces a ghostly trail taken a hundred years ago by Lakota men, women and children to their death at Wounded Knee. Striking images from the ride, from the Ghost Dance, from the Seventh Cavalry - and interviews with the riders and lakota elders, create a unique blend of the past and present - told on film for the first time from the point of view of the Lakota themselves.

90 minutes; Color

"Cinematically imaginative…strong docu… Impressionistic visual touches heighten the events … editing and outdoor photography is excellent."
- Variety
"A vivid and original moving presentation of the events surrounding the massacre at Wounded Knee."
- Jeff Clark, Film Library Journal
"True, tragic and greatly important to our understanding of this chapter of American history. It ought to be seen, pondered and held carefully in the memory."
- N. Scott Momaday, Native American Pulitzer Prize Winning Author
"Fast paced and engrossing … weaves many elements into a portrait of both the Lakota past and their legacy … spirited and powerful".
- Peter Stack, San Francisco Chronicle
"A beautifully made, visually stunning film. It tells the story of this tragic tale clearly and directly. The audience was visibly moved."
- The Minneapolis Institute of Fine Arts
"Spiritually charged and imaginative".
- Howie Movshovitz, Denver Post
"Fascinating and affecting."
- Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer