'Wiping the Tears'
The word ''Sioux'' is a mistranslation of a French word meaning enemy. It came about in the early 1800s when French immigrants pushed their way onto the Midwest plains, and its usage intensified when the forces of the 7th Cavalry brutally ''cleared'' those lands of the Lakota tribe, most horribly in the massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890, where more than 300 unarmed Lakota were killed, some buried alive in mass graves.
The stirring documentary ''Wiping the Tears of Seven Generations'' tells the Lakota Sioux's story and the horrible suffering that they endured during subsequent generations, with much of their culture and history irretrievably buried with that 1890 massacre.
Focusing on the Bigfoot Memorial Ride, a 250-mile trek by horseback that present-day Sioux leaders took in mid-December to pay homage to their lost ancestors at Wounded Knee, this 60-minute film traces the hardship and spiritual suffering the Lakota have endured through the last century.
Mixing archival photos with contemporary interviews, directors Gary Rhine and Fidel Moreno have woven in this spare telling a powerful and graphic testament to the spiritual resilience of the Lakota people. For those unfamiliar with this history -- ''We must act with vindictive earnestness against the Sioux, '' Gen. William Sherman counseled President Ulysses S. Grant -- ''Wiping the Tears of Seven Generations'' is an eye-opening lesson of the horrors of Manifest Destiny.
Stirring in its earnest simplicity, ''Wiping the Tears'' is a vivid, eloquent testimony to the resilience of the Lakota people.
WIPING THE TEARS OF SEVEN GENERATIONS
A Kifaru production
Producer Gary Rhine
Directors Gary Rhine, Fidel Moreno
Screenwriters Gary Rhine, Phil Cousineau
Editor Laurie Schmidt
Narrator Hanna Left Hand Bull Fixico
Associate producer Fidel Moreno
Color/stereo
Running time -- 60 minutes
No MPAA rating
(c) The Hollywood Reporter...
The stirring documentary ''Wiping the Tears of Seven Generations'' tells the Lakota Sioux's story and the horrible suffering that they endured during subsequent generations, with much of their culture and history irretrievably buried with that 1890 massacre.
Focusing on the Bigfoot Memorial Ride, a 250-mile trek by horseback that present-day Sioux leaders took in mid-December to pay homage to their lost ancestors at Wounded Knee, this 60-minute film traces the hardship and spiritual suffering the Lakota have endured through the last century.
Mixing archival photos with contemporary interviews, directors Gary Rhine and Fidel Moreno have woven in this spare telling a powerful and graphic testament to the spiritual resilience of the Lakota people. For those unfamiliar with this history -- ''We must act with vindictive earnestness against the Sioux, '' Gen. William Sherman counseled President Ulysses S. Grant -- ''Wiping the Tears of Seven Generations'' is an eye-opening lesson of the horrors of Manifest Destiny.
Stirring in its earnest simplicity, ''Wiping the Tears'' is a vivid, eloquent testimony to the resilience of the Lakota people.
WIPING THE TEARS OF SEVEN GENERATIONS
A Kifaru production
Producer Gary Rhine
Directors Gary Rhine, Fidel Moreno
Screenwriters Gary Rhine, Phil Cousineau
Editor Laurie Schmidt
Narrator Hanna Left Hand Bull Fixico
Associate producer Fidel Moreno
Color/stereo
Running time -- 60 minutes
No MPAA rating
(c) The Hollywood Reporter...
- 12/3/1992
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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