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Large-scale frontier epic telling the true story of a band of Cheyenne Indians who, starved nearly to extinction on an inhospitable reservation, embark on the long trek back to their distant...
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Cheyenne Autumn. Summaries. The Cheyenne, tired of broken U.S. government promises, head for their ancestral lands but a sympathetic cavalry officer is tasked to bring them back to their reservation.
Synopsis. In the 1870's, the Cheyenne Indians are taken from their Wyoming homelands and moved to a barren Oklahoma reservation. After a year of waiting for Federal aid that never arrives, the original band of 1,000 has been reduced by disease and starvation to a mere 286.
Jan 18, 2023 · Cheyenne Autumn (1964) Mark Franklin January 18, 2023 1960s. The Cheyenne Nation, living with starvation and poverty on their assigned reservation in Oklahoma in 1877, awaits a delegation from Washington to hear their grievances. When the delegation turns back because of bumpy roads and dust storms — and the inconvenience since there’s an ...
YouTube Movies & TV. 181M subscribers. Subscribed. 829. Beautifully restored to its original length with footage not seen in two decades, John Ford's last Western masterpiece chronicles the...
It’s a disjointed telling of a tribe of Cheyenne Indians and their 1,500-mile journey back to their homeland from enforced exile and a harsh winter spent in a reservation – something of an apologia for Ford’s less-than-progressive depictions earlier in his career.
Based on a novel by Mari Sandoz, Cheyenne Autumn is a cinematic elegy--not only for the beleaguered Cheyennes, but for John Ford's fifty years in pictures.
