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A 2017 biographical drama film about Catherine Weldon, a painter who befriends Sitting Bull in 1890s Dakota. The film stars Jessica Chastain, Michael Greyeyes, Sam Rockwell and Ciarán Hinds, and has mixed reviews and historical inaccuracies.
- Who Was Sitting Bull?
- Who Was Catherine Weldon?
- Why Did She Visit Sitting Bull?
- Were Sitting Bull and Catherine Weldon Romantically Involved?
- What Was The Ghost Dance?
- Is This The Same Standing Rock?
One of history’s most famous Native American leaders, he’s most well known today for defeating General George Custer’s army at The Battle of the Little Bighorn on June 25, 1876, near the Little Bighorn River in what was then Montana Territory. The confrontation was sparked by Custer’s troops discovering gold in the Sioux-controlled Black Hills, now...
She had several different identities. As explained by the book that inspired the movie, Eileen Pollack’s Woman Walking Ahead:In Search of Catherine Weldon and Sitting Bull, she was born Susanna Faesch in Switzerland in 1844 and immigrated to Brooklyn, N.Y. when she was a child. She made her living selling her embroidery. (She was not a widow, as th...
What exactly prompted Weldon to travel to see Sitting Bull is unknown, but her biography provides several clues. Native American culture was a subject of fascination in Switzerland during the time of her youth, and Pollack says that after she came to the U.S. she might have been inspired to action by the newspaper coverage of the Indians losing the...
It’s an understandable question watching the Sitting Bull character de-robe in front of Weldon in a tent in the film. “There was some romantic tension,” Pollack says. “There’s evidence that he proposed marriage.” But, Pollack says, the record shows that Weldon wasn’t interested in marrying Sitting Bull (who had two wives) and maintained their relat...
Though it plays a relatively minor role in the movie — Weldon and Sitting Bull emerge from the tent and see tribe members dancing in a circle around a fire pit, looking up at the sky with their arms outstretched in the air — the Ghost Dance is an important part of the Sitting Bull story. The Ghost Dance was a religious movement that emerged in some...
Yes. The place where Weldon visits Sitting Bull is the same place that made news recently as the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and their allies gathered there to oppose the construction of the Dakota access pipelinefor fears that it would contaminate their water supply. “The Dawes Act ultimately deprived the Sioux of much of their treaty-guaranteed lan...
Woman Walks Ahead: Directed by Susanna White. With Jessica Chastain, Louisa Krause, Boots Southerland, Chaske Spencer. Catherine Weldon, a portrait painter from 1890s Brooklyn, travels to Dakota to paint a portrait of Sitting Bull and becomes embroiled in the Lakota peoples' struggle over the rights to their land.
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- Biography, Drama, History
- Susanna White
- 2018-06-29
Woman Walks Ahead. A headstrong New York painter embarks on a dangerous journey to meet Sitting Bull but must face off with an Army officer intent on war with the Native Americans. Rent Woman...
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- Susanna White
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- Jessica Chastain
A film based on true events about Catherine Weldon, an artist who painted Chief Sitting Bull in 1880s North Dakota. She faced hostility from the US Army and fought for Native American rights and friendship.
Apr 24, 2018 · Watch the official trailer for Woman Walks Ahead, a drama movie starring Jessica Chastain, Michael Greyeyes & Sam Rockwell. In theaters June 29, 2018.Carolin...
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Jun 29, 2018 · When “Woman Walks Ahead” premiered at the Toronto film fest last year, some found it guilty of being yet another white savior tale. After all, Weldon’s arrival at the Indian grounds is shown to coincide with the end of a three-month drought as raindrops begin to trickle down.
