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Jun 29, 2018 · Woman Walks Ahead: Directed by Susanna White. With Jessica Chastain, Louisa Krause, Boots Southerland, Chaske Spencer. Catherine Weldon, a portrait painter from 1890s Brooklyn, travels to Dakota to paint a portrait of Sitting Bull and becomes embroiled in the Lakota peoples' struggle over the rights to their land.
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- Biography, Drama, History
- Susanna White
- 2018-06-29
- Who Was Sitting Bull?
- Who Was Catherine Weldon?
- Why Did She Visit Sitting Bull?
- Were Sitting Bull and Catherine Weldon Romantically Involved?
- What Was The Ghost Dance?
- Is This The Same Standing Rock?
One of history’s most famous Native American leaders, he’s most well known today for defeating General George Custer’s army at The Battle of the Little Bighorn on June 25, 1876, near the Little Bighorn River in what was then Montana Territory. The confrontation was sparked by Custer’s troops discovering gold in the Sioux-controlled Black Hills, now...
She had several different identities. As explained by the book that inspired the movie, Eileen Pollack’s Woman Walking Ahead:In Search of Catherine Weldon and Sitting Bull, she was born Susanna Faesch in Switzerland in 1844 and immigrated to Brooklyn, N.Y. when she was a child. She made her living selling her embroidery. (She was not a widow, as th...
What exactly prompted Weldon to travel to see Sitting Bull is unknown, but her biography provides several clues. Native American culture was a subject of fascination in Switzerland during the time of her youth, and Pollack says that after she came to the U.S. she might have been inspired to action by the newspaper coverage of the Indians losing the...
It’s an understandable question watching the Sitting Bull character de-robe in front of Weldon in a tent in the film. “There was some romantic tension,” Pollack says. “There’s evidence that he proposed marriage.” But, Pollack says, the record shows that Weldon wasn’t interested in marrying Sitting Bull (who had two wives) and maintained their relat...
Though it plays a relatively minor role in the movie — Weldon and Sitting Bull emerge from the tent and see tribe members dancing in a circle around a fire pit, looking up at the sky with their arms outstretched in the air — the Ghost Dance is an important part of the Sitting Bull story. The Ghost Dance was a religious movement that emerged in some...
Yes. The place where Weldon visits Sitting Bull is the same place that made news recently as the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and their allies gathered there to oppose the construction of the Dakota access pipelinefor fears that it would contaminate their water supply. “The Dawes Act ultimately deprived the Sioux of much of their treaty-guaranteed lan...
Jun 28, 2018 · Michael Greyeyes as Sitting Bull and Jessica Chastain as Caroline Weldon in the movie 'Woman Walks Ahead.' Weldon’s life was certainly movie-ready: She was an unconventional thinker and a...
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Jun 27, 2018 · In Woman Walks Ahead, out June 29, a Swiss-born painter named Catherine Weldon (Jessica Chastain) boldly leaves her home in Brooklyn, New York, and boards a train headed west. She seeks to...
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Sep 5, 2018 · Woman Walks Ahead stars the Golden Globe-winning actress and activist Jessica Chastain as artist Caroline Weldon who travels from 1890s Brooklyn to Dakota to paint a portrait of Sitting Bull...
- Lewis Knight
Jun 29, 2018 · As explained by the book that inspired the movie, Eileen Pollack’s Woman Walking Ahead: In Search of Catherine Weldon and Sitting Bull, she was born Susanna Faesch in Switzerland in 1844 and...
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Jul 27, 2018 · The portrait of the Hunkpapa Lakota leader was done by Catherine Weldon, an Indian activist who came to the Standing Rock Reservation in 1889, to capture Sitting Bull's likeness on...
