![]() ![]() Telegraph operator sharing coffee with Captain Archer Quaker elder Jeremy Wright, Deborah Wright's uncle Robinson as the Secretary of the Interior, Carl Schurz in their own green and fertile country, 1500 miles to the north." The promises that had led them to give up their own way of life. when the white man sent them here more than a year ago. their three great chiefs prayed over the sacred bundle. as out of place in this desert as eagles in a cage. which was then called Indian Territory.īut this wasn't just another day to the Cheyenne. in that vast barren land in the American Southwest. It dawned like any other day on the Cheyenne reservation. Opening scene narrated by Richard Widmark Also featured are James Stewart as Marshal Wyatt Earp, Dolores del Río as Spanish Woman, and Carroll Baker as a pacifist Quaker school teacher and Archer's love interest. Secretary of the Interior Carl Schurz tries to prevent violence from erupting between the Army and the natives. As the press misrepresents the natives' motives and goals for their trek as malicious, the U.S. Army is forced to lead his troops in an attempt to stop the tribe. government sees this as an act of rebellion, and the sympathetic Captain Thomas Archer of the U.S. In 1878, Chiefs Little Wolf and Dull Knife lead over three hundred starved and weary Cheyenne Indians from their reservation in the Oklahoma Territory to their former traditional home in Wyoming. With a budget of more than $4 million, the film was relatively unsuccessful at the box office and failed to earn a profit for its distributor Warner Bros. government and misrepresented by many of the director's own films. The film was the last western directed by John Ford, who proclaimed it an elegy for the Native Americans who had been abused by the U.S. It tells the story of a factual event, the Northern Cheyenne Exodus of 1878–79, told in "Hollywood style" using a great deal of artistic license. ![]() Cheyenne Autumn is a 1964 American epic Western film starring Richard Widmark, Carroll Baker, James Stewart, and Edward G. ![]()
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