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A critically acclaimed TNT mini-series, produced by Creator/StevenSpielberg, that follows [[EnsembleCast a variety of fictional characters]] as their lives become intertwined with eachother and the real historical events of the [[TheWildWest Westward Expansion]] of the 1800s.
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A critically acclaimed TNT mini-series, produced by Creator/StevenSpielberg, that follows [[EnsembleCast a variety of fictional characters]] as their lives become intertwined with eachother each other and the real historical events of the [[TheWildWest Westward Expansion]] of the 1800s.
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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Enough that many scenes had to be deleted, leading to quite a few {{Aborted Arc}}s.
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* HeelRealization: The {{Jerkass}} newspaper correspondent who hugely exaggerated the warlike nature of the Ghost Dancers is later seen crying quietly in the wreckage of the Wounded Knee camp.
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* HeelRealization: The {{Jerkass}} newspaper correspondent who hugely exaggerated the warlike nature of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Dance Ghost Dancers Dancers]] is later seen crying quietly in the wreckage of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wounded_Knee_Massacre Wounded Knee Knee]] camp.
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* ToneShift: The first three episodes are, from the white point of view, about the vastness of the west and the challenge of settling it, while the Native American view concerns the first encroachments by white settlers. From the fourth episode onward though, particularly starting with the Sand Creek Massacre, the focus of the series shifts more to the constant conflicts between both sides. Sadly, very much TruthInTelevision.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: A veteran decides that Native Americans need western-style education in order to survive in the modern world. Not a bad idea, you might say. Except the education involves stripping the students of everything related to their culture and forbidding them from speaking their native language ever again.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: A veteran decides that Native Americans need western-style education in order to survive in the modern world. Not a bad idea, you might say. Except the education involves stripping the students of everything related to their culture and forbidding them from speaking their native language ever again.
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* ToneShift: The first three episodes are, from the white point of view, about the vastness of the west and the challenge of settling it, while the Native American view concerns the first encroachments by white settlers. From the fourth episode onward though, particularly starting with the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand_Creek_massacre Sand Creek Massacre, Massacre]], the focus of the series shifts more to the constant conflicts between both sides. Sadly, very much TruthInTelevision.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: A veteran decides that Native Americans need western-style education in order to survive in the modern world. Not a bad idea, you might say. Except [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlisle_Indian_Industrial_School the education involves stripping the students of everything related to theirculture culture]] and forbidding them from speaking their native language ever again.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: A veteran decides that Native Americans need western-style education in order to survive in the modern world. Not a bad idea, you might say. Except [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlisle_Indian_Industrial_School the education involves stripping the students of everything related to their
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* RescueRomance: After Jacob rescues Thunder Heart Woman from slavery, one thing leads to another.
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* GoingNative: Jacob Wheeler after marrying a Thunder Heart Woman. They and their children shift between Native and white society as the series progresses. Jacob's cousin, Naomi, also goes native when she marries a Cheyenne chief, Prairie Fire.
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* GoingNative: Jacob Wheeler after marrying a Thunder Heart Woman.Lakota woman. They and their children shift between Native and white society as the series progresses. Jacob's cousin, Naomi, also goes native when she marries a Cheyenne chief, Prairie Fire.
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* ScreamingBirth: Averted by Thunder Heart Woman, who gives birth to their youngest child while they're briefly living with his parents; one of Jacob's cousins is surprised by her stoicism, saying that "She didn't cry out. Not once!"
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[[caption-width-right:300:"Americans don't belong to any one place. As soon as they get settled, they get restless for something more." - Abraham High-Wolf Wheeler]]
A critically acclaimed TNT mini-series, produced by Creator/StevenSpielberg, that follows [[EnsembleCast a variety of fictional characters]] as their lives become intertwined with eachother and the real historical events of the [[TheWildWest Westward Expansion]] of the 1800s.
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!!Tropes:
* AbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder: [[spoiler: Thunder Heart Woman remarries after she believes Jacob to be dead.]]
* ArcSymbol: The wheel, symbol of both the Wheeler family and the Lakota Medicine Wheel, represents the cyclical nature of life and history.
* ChekhovsGunman: Black Coyote, the deaf Native American seen with Big Foot.
* DevelopingDoomedCharacters: Nearly all of the [[spoiler: Lawrence, Kansas]] arc, other than providing Clara's backstory.
* TheDulcineaEffect: Again, Jacob and Thunder Heart Woman. He barely saw her for a few minutes and decides to duel to the death for her.
* GoingNative: Jacob Wheeler after marrying a Thunder Heart Woman. They and their children shift between Native and white society as the series progresses. Jacob's cousin, Naomi, also goes native when she marries a Cheyenne chief, Prairie Fire.
* GoldFever: Jethro ends up with a pretty bad case.
* HeelRealization: The {{Jerkass}} newspaper correspondent who hugely exaggerated the warlike nature of the Ghost Dancers is later seen crying quietly in the wreckage of the Wounded Knee camp.
* HistoricalFiction: The series is an impressive example.
* ImportantHaircut: The head of the Indian School notes that Native Americans only cut their hair in times of great mourning, which is why the students are so traumatized by their new haircuts. One boy, George Voices That Carry, refuses to let his hair be cut, then cuts it himself in a very obvious demonstration of grief.
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Enough that many scenes had to be deleted, leading to quite a few {{Aborted Arc}}s.
* MagicalNativeAmerican: Loved by the Buffalo, a medicine man.
* NobleSavage: They're not exactly glamorized, but the Native Americans are portrayed respectfully and they come across as better than most of the settlers.
* LaserGuidedKarma: The drunk interpreter who basically singlehandedly causes a battle (Based on the RealLife Grattan Massacre) is among the first to die.
* PoorCommunicationKills: The Miniseries.
* ScreamingBirth: Averted by Thunder Heart Woman, who gives birth to their youngest child while they're briefly living with his parents; one of Jacob's cousins is surprised by her stoicism, saying that "She didn't cry out. Not once!"
* ToneShift: The first three episodes are, from the white point of view, about the vastness of the west and the challenge of settling it, while the Native American view concerns the first encroachments by white settlers. From the fourth episode onward though, particularly starting with the Sand Creek Massacre, the focus of the series shifts more to the constant conflicts between both sides. Sadly, very much TruthInTelevision.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: A veteran decides that Native Americans need western-style education in order to survive in the modern world. Not a bad idea, you might say. Except the education involves stripping the students of everything related to their culture and forbidding them from speaking their native language ever again.
* WhamLine: Even if you know exactly what's coming, it still inspires an OhCrap moment:
--> "How far is the camp?"
--> "Five miles. The creek called Wounded Knee."
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Once the Trans-Continental Railway is complete, Abe Wheeler disappears from the story entirely.
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[[caption-width-right:300:"Americans don't belong to any one place. As soon as they get settled, they get restless for something more." - Abraham High-Wolf Wheeler]]
A critically acclaimed TNT mini-series, produced by Creator/StevenSpielberg, that follows [[EnsembleCast a variety of fictional characters]] as their lives become intertwined with eachother and the real historical events of the [[TheWildWest Westward Expansion]] of the 1800s.
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!!Tropes:
* AbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder: [[spoiler: Thunder Heart Woman remarries after she believes Jacob to be dead.]]
* ArcSymbol: The wheel, symbol of both the Wheeler family and the Lakota Medicine Wheel, represents the cyclical nature of life and history.
* ChekhovsGunman: Black Coyote, the deaf Native American seen with Big Foot.
* DevelopingDoomedCharacters: Nearly all of the [[spoiler: Lawrence, Kansas]] arc, other than providing Clara's backstory.
* TheDulcineaEffect: Again, Jacob and Thunder Heart Woman. He barely saw her for a few minutes and decides to duel to the death for her.
* GoingNative: Jacob Wheeler after marrying a Thunder Heart Woman. They and their children shift between Native and white society as the series progresses. Jacob's cousin, Naomi, also goes native when she marries a Cheyenne chief, Prairie Fire.
* GoldFever: Jethro ends up with a pretty bad case.
* HeelRealization: The {{Jerkass}} newspaper correspondent who hugely exaggerated the warlike nature of the Ghost Dancers is later seen crying quietly in the wreckage of the Wounded Knee camp.
* HistoricalFiction: The series is an impressive example.
* ImportantHaircut: The head of the Indian School notes that Native Americans only cut their hair in times of great mourning, which is why the students are so traumatized by their new haircuts. One boy, George Voices That Carry, refuses to let his hair be cut, then cuts it himself in a very obvious demonstration of grief.
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Enough that many scenes had to be deleted, leading to quite a few {{Aborted Arc}}s.
* MagicalNativeAmerican: Loved by the Buffalo, a medicine man.
* NobleSavage: They're not exactly glamorized, but the Native Americans are portrayed respectfully and they come across as better than most of the settlers.
* LaserGuidedKarma: The drunk interpreter who basically singlehandedly causes a battle (Based on the RealLife Grattan Massacre) is among the first to die.
* PoorCommunicationKills: The Miniseries.
* ScreamingBirth: Averted by Thunder Heart Woman, who gives birth to their youngest child while they're briefly living with his parents; one of Jacob's cousins is surprised by her stoicism, saying that "She didn't cry out. Not once!"
* ToneShift: The first three episodes are, from the white point of view, about the vastness of the west and the challenge of settling it, while the Native American view concerns the first encroachments by white settlers. From the fourth episode onward though, particularly starting with the Sand Creek Massacre, the focus of the series shifts more to the constant conflicts between both sides. Sadly, very much TruthInTelevision.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: A veteran decides that Native Americans need western-style education in order to survive in the modern world. Not a bad idea, you might say. Except the education involves stripping the students of everything related to their culture and forbidding them from speaking their native language ever again.
* WhamLine: Even if you know exactly what's coming, it still inspires an OhCrap moment:
--> "How far is the camp?"
--> "Five miles. The creek called Wounded Knee."
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Once the Trans-Continental Railway is complete, Abe Wheeler disappears from the story entirely.
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