Wounded Knee wins 6 Emmy's

[WhoMe]

I heard from Native critics that the writer is not Native. Here's a little info about him from the BMHAWN website:

"Daniel Giat (writer) is a graduate of the University of Connecticut and the American Film Institute, where he received an MFA in screenwriting. He was nominated for both an Emmy® Award and Humanitas Award for writing HBO's "Path to War," the final film directed by John Frankenheimer."

In his interview, Daniel Giat said, "I had to go way beyond what was written in Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee to tell this story. I had to read many other books, and by using those sources collectively, I was able to adapt the book, and tell a story that I believe Dee Brown would have been very proud of."

Hmmmm?

It has been insinuated by both Native and nonNative critics that Giat took many unnessary liberties in rewriting Dee Browns original book. Some of these liberties included adding a love story, adding Charles Eastman (Beach), adding Elaine Goodale Eastman (Paquin) and re-personifying Sitting Bull (Schellenburg) as less than honorable.

Thus in changing the book, he changed real history.

It's too bad that Indian made movies never get A-list backing or acclaim from mainstream contemporaries.

It's also too bad Native people did not win any awards in an Indian themed movie.....


again.

[injunboy]

back in the day my mother was attending college and she brought this book home from the bookstore. it more or less sat on the bookshelf until i decided to read it. after reading the stories i felt entertained and having learned something. so i was hoping for some of that

after two, three attempts i decided this show wasnt for me. oh well huh?

[Ndnsoldierboy]

I only seen a few parts of the show on tv and didn't like what I saw...it was lame. I was expecting a movie on some of the chapters from the book.

[timmy tiger]

I've never seen the movie. A friend of mine has ordered a copy for me as a gift and for her. We are supposed to be getting together to watch it. Now, I'm wondering about it. I'll still watch it, but I will keep the rest of this in mind. But this is, again, the same stuff as Pocohontas, much of what you hear and are told is not what really happened and people add stuff just to get other peoples attention. Why can't people just tell the facts about history and not try to throw in stuff that they think that people would want to see.