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HBO has an upcoming film based on the book, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West.

Dee Brown wrote this in the early 1970’s and it is the history of Native Americans – starting with the Long Walk of the Navajos in 1860 and ending in South Dakota at Wounded Knee . Brown showed a different version than the Hollywood often told of the Indians and how the white man settled the ‘new’ land it found.

The show which according to Ed Wyatt in New York Times is based on the book. Of course something was needed and like most ‘books to movies’ they felt they needed to add a lil something to make it marketable.

A new character was added. A man who is part Sioux, an Ivy League educated man who of course marries a white woman. A film writer said the character was needed “to carry a contemporary white audience through this project.”

I find that amazingly sad. Is that just me? Oh guess not…

Shelf-Awareness also reports:

Brown’s grandson, who said the estate has no control over the film’s content–near the end of his life, Brown optioned the rights to the current producers–expressed unhappiness, to put it mildly.

via Shelf-Awareness: