film · 2017

Woman Walks Ahead

Catherine Weldon, a portrait painter from 1890s Brooklyn, travels to Dakota to paint a portrait of Sitting Bull and becomes embroiled in the Lakota peoples' struggle over the rights to their land.

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Panoramic view of downtown Santa Fe, New Mexico, from the top of La Fonda Hotel on the Plaza

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Open landscape and period-set scenes depicting the Dakota Territory in 1890

Santa Fe area

Woman Walks Ahead · 2017

Adobe ruins of Pecos Pueblo at the Pecos National Historic Site, New Mexico

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Rural and wilderness scenes used for the Standing Rock reservation setting

Pecos Area

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Aerial view of Cerro Pelon Ranch western townsite near Galisteo

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Western-set buildings used for Fort Yates and Catherine Weldon scenes on the prairie

Cerro Pelon Ranch

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View from afar