Sacred Ground

Sacred Ground
  • Release date: 28 Jan 1983
  • Release year: 1983
  • Runtime: 100 minutes
  • Country: United States
  • Keywords: indian burial ground, man, mountain man, cabin, burial ground, oregon, indian burial, medicine man, paiute indian, snow
Plot:
This movie tells the fact-based story of a mountain man and his Native American wife who happen upon a partially built cabin and finish it for their own home, not realizing that they occupy a sacred burial ground. A Paiute burial party clashes with the couple and in the ensuing skirmish, the wife is fatally wounded while in the middle of childbirth. Bitter over her loss and needing a wetnurse for his baby, he steals one of the Paiute women who had just lost a baby. In this modern version of Helen of Troy, the battle is on, as he takes on the whole band in a desperate attempt to survive.
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