Children of the Dust

Overview

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. 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.

Cast

Sidney Poitier

Gypsy Smith

Michael Moriarty

John Maxwell

Farrah Fawcett

Nora Maxwell

Katharine Isabelle

Young Rachel

Joanna Going

Rachel

Billy Wirth

Corby/White Wolf

Regina Taylor

Drusilla

Robert Guillaume

Mossburger

Jim Caviezel

Dexter

John Pyper-Ferguson

Sonny Boy

Grace Zabriskie

Rose

Byron Chief-Moon

Chief Walks-The-Clouds