
A propaganda re-enactment, co-financed by the Woodrow Wilson government, of the 1890 massacre of 300 Lakota residents of South Dakota, which was portrayed as American military heroism and justified as part of the assimilation effort..
Charles King
United States

When the first frame flickers, you are not merely watching a movie; you are witnessing a crucifixion of memory. The Indian Wars, that sanctimonious little strip of 1914 celluloid, pretends to be a documentary, yet every sprocket hole reeks of state-sponsored incense. Wilson’s bureaucrats bankrolled it, the War Depart...

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" When the first frame flickers, you are not merely watching a movie; you are witnessing a crucifixion of memory. The Indian Wars, that sanctimonious little strip of 1914 celluloid, pretends to be a documentary, yet every sprocket hole reeks of state-sponsored incense. Wilson’s bureaucrats bankrolled it, the War Department lent Gatling guns as props, and surviving Lakota—still carrying 1890 frostbite scars—were herded before Edison’s tar-black cameras to resurrect their own extinction for popcor..."


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