Into the West (miniseries)

Into the West is a 2005 miniseries produced by Steven Spielberg and DreamWorks, with six twohour episodes including commercials. The series was first broadcast in the U.S. on Turner Network Television TNT on six Fridays starting onJune 2005. It was also shown in the UK on BBC2 and BBC HD fromNovember 2006, and in Canada on CBC Television. The series also aired in the U.S. on AMC during the summer JuneJuly and fall autumn, SeptemberOctober of 2012.

Growling Bear Gordon Tootoosis, an elderly Lakota medicine man, has an apocalyptic vision that the buffalo his people rely upon will soon vanish from the prairie and the Lakota will live in square houses. His vision is controversial and his apprentice, Soaring Eagle Gerald Auger, convinces most of the people to disregard Growling Bears dark vision. A young boy named White Feather Chevez Ezaneh overhears and seeks out the now discredited Growling Bear to learn more about his vision. Before he dies, Growling Bear gives White Feather a necklace symbolizing the Lakota medicine wheel. This necklace is passed on to various characters through the miniseries.Later, during a buffalo jump hunt led by White Feathers older brothers Running Fox Matthew Strongeagle and Dog Star Pony Boy Osuniga, many people from the village are killed during the stampede, but White Feather is miraculously spared when the spirit of deceased Growling Bear appears to protect him. The tribe renames him Loved by the Buffalo and begin to regard him as a holy man healing people by taking their pain upon himself. This causes Soaring Eagle to become jealous and he tries to undermine Loved by the Buffalo Simon Baker by blaming him for an outbreak of pox and then leaving him for dead. Growling bear appears to Loved by the Buffalo again teaching him a song to cure the outbreak. ........

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