Children of the Dust (1995)

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
	Sidney Poitier	...	Gypsy Smith
	Michael Moriarty	...	John Maxwell
	Joanna Going	...	Rachel
	Hart Bochner	...	Shelby Hornbeck
	Regina Taylor	...	Drusilla
	Billy Wirth	...	Corby / White Wolf
	Shirley Knight	...	Aunt Bertha
	Grace Zabriskie	...	Rose
	Basil Wallace
	Jim Caviezel	...	Dexter
	Robert Guillaume	...	Mossburger
	Farrah Fawcett	...	Nora Maxwell
	John Pyper-Ferguson	...	Sonny Boy (as John Pyper Ferguson)
	Byron Chief-Moon	...	Chief Walks-The-Clouds
	Kevin McNulty	...	Sheriff Harriman

Storyline

Gypsy Smith, is a gunfighter and a bounty hunter. When he leads the US army into a Cheyenne camp to capture a suspected Indian renegade, a long train of events begins that finally lead to that 'good day to die'. White Wolf, only a child, is one of the few survivors of the massacre of his tribe that day, and Gypsy brings him to live with the Maxwell family, where he grows up not fully Indian and not really white but a bit too close to Rachel, the Maxwell daughter. And Gypsy now reappears, leading a group of Black settlers from the post-Civil War South to start a new life in a town of their own - Freedom in the Oklahoma Territory, its first black settlement. White Wolf (or Corby as a 'white' name') is now with his people, but all of these parts come back together in conflict, violence, loss, and Pyrric triumph. Written by Bruce Cameron <dumarest@midcoast.com>  

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