The film Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, documents the annihilation of the American Indians in the late 1800s. The film begins in the Black Hills of the Dakotas, a land sacred to the Sioux Native Americans. The Sioux claimed the land and their population prospered due to the area's good resources. The white people want to take control of the land and force the natives to move to another area. They want the natives to assimilate and believe this strategy will improve the nation. Senator Henry Dawes proposed moving the natives to several reservations, where they could learn the ways of the whites. Dawes uses an Americanized native named Ohiyesa, or Charles, as proof of the success of assimilation. The Sioux are forced to assimilate in order to protect their lives. When Chief Sitting Bull and his people fled their homelands for Canada, they lost all the resources they once relied on. This led to many deaths due to lack of food, heat and much more. A little Sioux girl died of starvation and bad weather. M...