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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee This movie is about a boy who is taken from his tribe. His father takes him from his tribe, because he wants him to be more educated and have a more safe life. The boys name is Ohiyesa, Ohiyesa goes to school to study to become a doctor. Ohiyesa later has to pick a white man's name so they do not know he came from a tribe. He chooses the name Charles Eastman. After he studies to become a doctor he is taken back to his tribe of the Sioux reservation, to help the sick people of his tribe. Sitting Bull, the last chief to come to the Sioux reservation was not following any of the rules and not doing what the people wanted him to do. The white people tried to get him to do what they wanted him to do but he would

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