Children of the Dust is an American Western television miniseries, based on Clancy Carlile's 1995 novel of the same name.

[1] Featuring an ensemble cast led by Sidney Poitier, Children of the Dust was originally broadcast by CBS on February 26 and 28, 1995.

[1] In the Oklahoma Territory of the late 1880s, Gypsy Smith (Poitier) is a bounty hunter of African American and Cherokee descent.

Smith helps African American homesteaders to settle the territory under the specter of Jim Crow.

Meanwhile, a young Native American raised by Whites (Wirth) must choose between the woman that he loves (Going) or his Cheyenne heritage.