10 Must See Native American Movies Based on True Stories
Running Brave
Running Brave movie shares the epic story of Billy Mills who left his reserve to go win Gold at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics in the 10,000 meter race.
Billy Mills is a Lakota man born in Pine Ridge, South Dakota. Billy talked about how in the Olympic in Tokyo, the United States didn’t want to help him get home.
So he talked with the organizers in Tokyo and they were in disbelief that USA would not take care of one of their biggest stars at the Olympics who just won a Gold Medal.
They took care of Billy and set him up in a big limousine and organized his flight home back to America.
Billy Mills started to date a Caucasian lady and a lot of things came out of that. The parents of the lady didn’t approve of her being with an Indian.
These are the days were the relationship between Settlers and Native American people were not so great….I guess it is still the case.
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