First Nations actors line up for roles in Wounded Knee

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Hundreds of First Nations people from southern Alberta are being hired for a made-for-TV movie based on the book Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.

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The film is to be directed by Quebec-born Yves Simoneau, who also directed Marie-Antoinette and Nuremberg for TV.

It stars Aidan Quinn and Canadian actor August Schellenberg and chronicles the plight of First Nations people in the U.S. during the days of Sitting Bull and George Custer.

The book Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, an Indian history of the American West by Dee Brown, tells of the tragic end of the U.S. Indian wars. It chronicles the Battle of the Little Bighorn, the murders of Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse and the slaughter of Sioux prisoners at Wounded Knee.

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