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Who Will Burry The Dead?

2016-05-14 en 83m
DocumentaryHistory
This documentary offers a deep, candid, and historical look at the Christian experience of America's largest and best-known tribes: the Dakota and Lakota. Its exploration into Native American history also takes a hard and detailed look at President Ulysses S. Grant's Peace Policy of 1873, which was, in effect, a "convert to Episcopalianism or starve" edict put forth by the American government in direct violation of its Constitution. The devastation it had on the values of the people affected were dramatic and extremely long-lasting. Grant's policy was finally ended over 100 years later by the Freedom of American Indian Religions Act in 1978. Interlaced with extraordinarily candid interviews, this documentary presents an insider's perspective of how the Dakota and Lakota were estranged from their religious beliefs and their long-standing traditions.

Writer

Mark St. Pierre

Producer

Mark St. Pierre

Editor

eMjay Pate

Music

Mitchell Zephier

Director

Mark St. Pierre

Director of Photography

Shaun O'Connell

christianity dakota native american religious history oral history lakota forced assimilation cultural genocide decolonization

Status

Released

Countries

  • United States of America

Companies

  • Sound View Production

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