Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is a 2007 American Western historical drama television film based on the 1970 non-fiction book of the same name by Dee Brown.
It stars Aidan Quinn, Adam Beach, August Schellenberg, Anna Paquin, Colm Feore, and Gordon Tootoosis.
It received positive reviews from critics, and won seven Primetime Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Television Movie.
The plot, which is based on events covered by several chapters of Brown's book, other sources, and on real events, revolves around four main characters: While Eastman and his future wife Elaine Goodale, a reformer from New England and Superintendent of Indian Schools in the Dakotas, work to improve life for Native Americans on the reservation, Senator Dawes lobbies President Ulysses S. Grant for more humane treatment of the Native Americans.
The assassination of Sitting Bull, and the massacre, by the 7th Cavalry, of nearly 200 Native American men, women and children at Wounded Knee Creek on December 29, 1890, ended such hopes.