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Woman Walks Ahead is a 2017 American biographical drama Western film directed by Susanna White and written by Steven Knight. The film is the story of Catherine Weldon (Jessica Chastain), a portrait painter who travels from New York City to the Dakotas in 1890 to paint a portrait of Sitting Bull (Michael Greyeyes).
- 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...
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
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...
- Lewis Knight
Based on true events, Woman Walks Ahead tells the story of Catherine Weldon (Jessica Chastain), a widowed artist from New York who, in the 1880s, traveled alone to North Dakota to paint a portrait of Chief Sitting Bull (Michael Greyeyes).
Jun 29, 2018 · The movie Woman Walks Ahead — opening Friday, starring Jessica Chastain, Michael Greyeyes and Sam Rockwell — centers on what might seem like a minor moment in history: the 19th century efforts of...
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Jun 29, 2018 · This truth-based odd-couple Western, about a late-19th century meeting of the minds between Brooklyn-based proto-feminist portrait painter Catherine Weldon and the legendary Lakota chief Sitting Bull, clumsily conflates our country’s racist genocide of Native Americans with the era’s marginalizing of women and their lack of rights.
