The Indian Wars (movie)

The Indian Wars (movie)

  • Production country: United States of America
  • Producer: Vernon Day , Theodore Wharton
  • Production companies: Col. Wm. F. Cody Historical Picture Co., The Essanay Film Manufacturing Company
  • Genre: History
  • Release date: 8/1/1914

Movie description

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.

Actors

Buffalo Bill Cody

Buffalo Bill Cody

Role(s): Self (as William F. Cody)

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